I need a tip on getting the bottom plastic cover off without taking the water pump pulley off
OR a tip to getting the pulley off without the belt on the pump...
Edit: I got the pulley off but that was, now that i can see, the least of my troubles....
this is the most ridiculous thing i've ever tried to do.
anyone that tries to change the water pump, may god have mercy on your soul.
why on EARTH would it be designed this way?
That pulley that covers some of those bolts on mine has huge chips taken out of it where someone has attempted to take it off with a gear puller.... ( i see now that the pulley is on a key and isn't a friction fit. I have no idea why it has such large chunks taken out of it... slightly concerning)
im not even going to try! What on earth am i supposed to do here??!?! is my entire car and build to waste because of this insane engineering flaw???
I can't get the nut off the (what i believe to be) the intermediate shaft pulley because i can't bar the pulley static.
I need to change the water pump because i dont think it works anymore.
Do i just not know what im doing? i really hope so...
I have to take off all those little bolts on the pulley side correct? and they go out and behind the intermediate shaft pulley?
after some extremely strong language i got it off :roll:
(well, the breaker bar and hammer helped)
For the intermediate gear i just used a medium prybar between the holes of the gear and a breaker bar like you had. better to use a big bar to break it loose than twisting everything with smaller tools . You did fine.
I used that steel rod beside the ratchet in the picture. stuff still twisted like crazy and i whacked the bolt while it was under tension with a finishing hammer and it went *ZINNGGG!!!* and my bar holding the gear went flying, the breaker bar didn't move and the gear spun the opposite direction of the force
wwhhheeeeeeeeee, sounds like fun. That's the sort of event that either makes me swear, or laugh my ass off when it happens to me.
I dodged the flying rod, cursed about the broken light, and then laughed my ass off. :lol:
I can't get the nut off the (what i believe to be) the intermediate shaft pulley because i can't bar the pulley static.
Not sure what "bar the pully static" means.
I put a 13mm deep socket through one of the holes in the I-shaft pully and onto the head of one of the seal carrier bolts,... to hold the I-shaft pully while I break the bolt loose.
bar means wedge a bar in it
the pulley is .... the pulley
static means stationary
i got it off. Thats a good method though. much safer than mine.