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 syncro90
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 08:02 AM |
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Transporter water pump advice needed
Howdy All
I am in the process of replacing a water pump on a 2.1l Transporter - much to my annoyance the hex's in the cap screws holding the lower pipe to the
water pump have stripped - which means having to remove the pulley from the crankshaft to access the bolt holding the pump to the block- my question
is how to undo the pulley bolt without one of those wizz-bang tools that stops the crank spinning?
I'd appreciate any advice or borrowing one of those tools from somebody close to Brisbane.
cheers,
NEP
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 09:49 AM |
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Hi
They are not that tight, or shouldn't be. I usually stick a rag in the fan belt to lock it up.
Steve
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 07:13 PM |
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Yeh i just did it recently and used a wrench through the crank pulley (and made sure it didnt put pressure on anything fragile) which stopped it from
moving and made the water pulley nut easy to get off. As said they're not too tight and shouldn't cause heaps of grief, although the stripped hex
heads can be a bugger...
Good luck
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 08:26 PM |
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To remove the stripped hex keys drive a multi hex spline bit in to the hex and use a socket to remove it .If you have a triple pulley it should be
bloody tight otherwise the pulley works ang flogs the key,keyway and crankshaft nose and this gets to be a very expensive repair. Good luck les
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| posted on November 25th, 2008 at 10:34 PM |
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thankzz all,but more advice needed
After swinging on a 3 foot length of pipe trying in an unsuccessful attempt to undo the crankshaft pulley bolt - I thought to confirm with you morue
experienced vee dubbers that the bolt does in fact undo anti-clockwise
cheerzz
NEP
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| posted on November 26th, 2008 at 10:27 AM |
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Hi
The triple pulley has 315 to 350nm torque and the tin pulley has 60nm torque. It does undo anti clockwise, just like a twist top stubby.
You can also sprag it with a screw driver thorough the pulley slots.
Steve
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| posted on November 26th, 2008 at 10:31 AM |
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Hi
I bought some external Ezy out style things from Mitre10, they are used for rusted nuts & bolts, you might be able to get one of those on the
stripped Allen head.
Steve
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| posted on November 26th, 2008 at 08:12 PM |
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Synchro, you may try thre old trade trick of disconnecting the coil wire so you have no spark,putting the socket on the nut and locating the breaker
bar against the subframe,then hitting the starter briefly to undo the nut. Before you do this make sure there is no possibility of the socket or bar
flying off and damaging something/somebody. As I said previously a 6mm multi hex allen key( as used on cv bolts) bumped into the stripped 6mm allen
key will undo the bolt. This will save you a lot of grief as ezy outs work fairly intermittently. Cheers Les
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| posted on November 27th, 2008 at 11:04 PM |
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Thankz all for your advice...finally managed to undo the pulley bolt with a lot of persistance and a longer length of pipe on my breaker bar.....like
my dad used to say - if at first you don't succed, then use a bigger hammer..... cheerzzzzzz
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