Water pump removal
Some people remove the plastic fan guard to give you a little more room. This also houses the radiator fan.... I left it in.... after fidling an swearing trying to get it out I gave up and in hind sight I didn't need to other than to give me a little more room.
Attach the tool seen in previous post to two of the holes located on the spindle where the belt is spun around. Stabilise it (I wedged it against the belt on the aircon compressor). Turn a size 24 spanner anti-clockwise to losen the fan off the water pump and move it out of the way. (Pic 1 blue is the water pump and red is the stupid nut you need to get off)
Use a size 15 socket and rotate the tension pully, located on the drivers side of the engine close to the fan, clockwise to losen the serpentine belt off the system. Once the belt is off the system remove both the tensioner pully and the other pully with a size 15. socket (pic 2 blue is the tensioner and red is the othe pully)
Once both pullies are off use a size 13 socket to remove a total of eight bolts and place them in order they came off as they are different lengths. These you get to from both the top and bottom of the engine. Once bolts are off wiggle the pump and it should come free. there will be a little bit of residue left where the old pump was so I used a sharp blade and a scrapping motion to remove the residue and wipe it all off with a cloth.... sorry no pic of this part as I had my hands full... HINT: write on the engine block where no 1 started and then mark each bolt as they come out.....
Placed the new pump back in being carefull not to bump the cast iron part on anything so it didnt chip. I placed the bolts back following the numbers from the mark on the engine block.
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Last edited by Jeep'ers; 03-11-2011 at 05:42 PM.
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