****UPDATE NEW PICSbroken waterpump pulley? **pics
#11
No,no...I all the work on my car myself...I've just never dealt with any of the accessorieson the car.
All I need is some good instructions and I'll get it done properly. I don't trust any mecanics, not even for oil changes...I do everything myself.
So can someone provide a good DIY for the0 replacement of the waterpump pulley? Is there a link somewhere?
All I need is some good instructions and I'll get it done properly. I don't trust any mecanics, not even for oil changes...I do everything myself.
So can someone provide a good DIY for the0 replacement of the waterpump pulley? Is there a link somewhere?
#12
WOW. so this lends alot of credit to it being the way the bolt heads distribute torque. Which is then exacerbated by the KW drives extra force applied.
Nice. Talk about a finicky design.
Nice. Talk about a finicky design.
#14
Originally Posted by mtls2k,Aug 5 2009, 07:46 PM
My car is 100% stock. I don't even have an intake. I don't see how the KW kit is relevant to my situation??
#15
I honestly can't see why the need for the stackup of washers, were the bolts you were using too long? Did at one time the bolts get over torqued and break off in the water pump box thread, causing the need to re-tap, with a UN home depot thread and flat washer set?
By using washers like that you spread the load un-evenly on the surface, perhapse causing enough wobble with the harmonics of the tensioner the amplify what is normally acceptable.
Give some feed back as to why your not using the OEM bolts?
By using washers like that you spread the load un-evenly on the surface, perhapse causing enough wobble with the harmonics of the tensioner the amplify what is normally acceptable.
Give some feed back as to why your not using the OEM bolts?
#16
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Originally Posted by mtls2k,Aug 5 2009, 07:14 PM
No,no...I all the work on my car myself...I've just never dealt with any of the accessorieson the car.
All I need is some good instructions and I'll get it done properly. I don't trust any mecanics, not even for oil changes...I do everything myself.
So can someone provide a good DIY for the0 replacement of the waterpump pulley? Is there a link somewhere?
All I need is some good instructions and I'll get it done properly. I don't trust any mecanics, not even for oil changes...I do everything myself.
So can someone provide a good DIY for the0 replacement of the waterpump pulley? Is there a link somewhere?
like i said if you want to do it yourself then you first need to take off the accessory belt, it take about five second flat if you know what you doing.
could the tension is released, take off the two good remaining bolt and see what's wrong with the third one. you might be able to get it off with a vise grip, you might need to get it off with extractor, you might need to take the whole water pump out to retap it. we don't know until you can show use a picture.
the water pump pulley replacement is just that three frontal bolts
you don't need a link, is all right there man.
#17
Originally Posted by Slambo,Aug 6 2009, 12:23 AM
I honestly can't see why the need for the stackup of washers, were the bolts you were using too long? Did at one time the bolts get over torqued and break off in the water pump box thread, causing the need to re-tap, with a UN home depot thread and flat washer set?
By using washers like that you spread the load un-evenly on the surface, perhapse causing enough wobble with the harmonics of the tensioner the amplify what is normally acceptable.
Give some feed back as to why your not using the OEM bolts?
.
By using washers like that you spread the load un-evenly on the surface, perhapse causing enough wobble with the harmonics of the tensioner the amplify what is normally acceptable.
Give some feed back as to why your not using the OEM bolts?
.
#18
anybody have a pic of what it looks like when the WP pulley is removed? I'd like to see what the assembly looks like behind the pulley.
1 one of the bolts on the pulley is broken. The head of the bolt is broken right off, so I want to see what the stem of the bolt is screwed into, in order to figure out how to remove it. I want to prepare myself.
Any pics?
1 one of the bolts on the pulley is broken. The head of the bolt is broken right off, so I want to see what the stem of the bolt is screwed into, in order to figure out how to remove it. I want to prepare myself.
Any pics?
#20
It's pretty easy to take off and put a new one on, even a noob like myself could do it. just use something to jam the pulley so it won't move then unbolt, and take the belt off before that. i just did it 2 days ago.