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peteskye
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Joined: 09 Oct 2005
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Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:16 am |
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Just joined -- hello
After my water pump decided to start squeeling like a pig, an being ok with a spanner, ordered new one and got to work, all fine till actually removing the old one, apart from 2 bolts which are completely immpossible to get at ? looks like the only way is to take a bloody great bracket off,?? just to get to these 2 bolts -- anyone done this before? and more to the point how do you get that off??
car is L reg, no mods.
cheers and am now going to put more plasters on my hands.........
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Chris H
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:46 am |
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did you loosen the pulley first?
loosen the pulley then you can jingle it otu of the way to get to the water pump. |
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peteskye
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:20 am |
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Chris
Thanks for the reply, yep all pullies are loose and or now off...
It is the 'bracket' that the pully is on is the problem - the one with the tensioning teeth on it, that the pully sits on.
that i thought was the easy bit, but like i say there is no access to the 2 most rear bolts that hold the water pump in... even with the belt tensioner pully off, you could with allot of patience an a skinny spanner get at it eventually, but the other one there is not enough room to get at it, even if you were able i dont think there would be enough room to let the bolt come far enough out?
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Chris H
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:02 am |
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yeah i know the one, the teeth normally shear off on the tensioner btw.
I have to say a smapper normally does the job, the bolts ain;t that long. i can't recal on what exactly has to coem off to get the bracket out of the way but its an arse anyway. |
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peteskye
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Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:13 pm |
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Sorted .......... well almost
Bonnet off, headlamp out, alternator off, radiator out, in fact everthing was off or out, eventually got bracket off, and the nice thing was there was a bolt hiding behind the power steering pump as well, so that had to come off as well......... christ
not an afternoon job thats for sure, anyway, all i have to do is put it all back together and hope that i dont break anything, or have to many bit left over......... although i was tempted many a time today to take a mash hammer and/or a hacksaw to most of it.
Cheeers for your help - chris
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Chris H
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Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:10 am |
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the access is awful.
The worst bit is th edaft tensioner setup! The 19 uses the clever method of moving the alt to tension it. |
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