So, as some of you may know, I had posted a thread indicating my water pump was a'goin' and I was planning to change it the weekend of the 12th. Whelp, she didn't make it. She's been making more and more disturbing noises and today as I was driving, I got three dings, no dash lights, looked down- needle all the way to the H on the temperature.
Immediately pulled over, idled it for about a minute, then cut the engine. Had a smell of coolant, popped the hood and BOO and YA, coolant all over the engine. Bearing finally, totally blew in the KJ waterpump.
The good news was that my friend was following me in his rig and we were heading up to do a little shooting, so we were armed to the teeth. So had any one stepped to us, they'd a reckanized! Respect. Dirt naps.
But seriously. Had her towed home and started removing the old pump. I have a chilton's manual which is generally pretty good, but I found the instructions for pump removal... puzzling.
Says to remove fan shroud. After studying the area in front of the water pump, I didn't see any reason to remove the fan shroud. Would have maybe given me an extra inch or two of room, but I didn't really seem to need it, so I decided to forego shroud removal.
After removing the timing belt, it suggests you remove the pump pulley. I believe someone had told me that removing the pulley was unnecessary. So I ignored that. However, nowhere in the instructions did it say to remove the idler pulley, except on the 2.4l. Yet in the picture, clearly the idler pulley had been removed. It's impossible to get to the #8 housing bolt with the idler pulley in place. So after trying to get that summb*tch off with a wrench and my bare hands, I realized I wasn't man enough, so I got out the breaker bar. Holy leveraged-buyouts, batman, that thing was torqued on hard.
When I replace the idler, does anyone know what the torque specification is for that is?
Immediately pulled over, idled it for about a minute, then cut the engine. Had a smell of coolant, popped the hood and BOO and YA, coolant all over the engine. Bearing finally, totally blew in the KJ waterpump.
The good news was that my friend was following me in his rig and we were heading up to do a little shooting, so we were armed to the teeth. So had any one stepped to us, they'd a reckanized! Respect. Dirt naps.
But seriously. Had her towed home and started removing the old pump. I have a chilton's manual which is generally pretty good, but I found the instructions for pump removal... puzzling.
Says to remove fan shroud. After studying the area in front of the water pump, I didn't see any reason to remove the fan shroud. Would have maybe given me an extra inch or two of room, but I didn't really seem to need it, so I decided to forego shroud removal.
After removing the timing belt, it suggests you remove the pump pulley. I believe someone had told me that removing the pulley was unnecessary. So I ignored that. However, nowhere in the instructions did it say to remove the idler pulley, except on the 2.4l. Yet in the picture, clearly the idler pulley had been removed. It's impossible to get to the #8 housing bolt with the idler pulley in place. So after trying to get that summb*tch off with a wrench and my bare hands, I realized I wasn't man enough, so I got out the breaker bar. Holy leveraged-buyouts, batman, that thing was torqued on hard.
When I replace the idler, does anyone know what the torque specification is for that is?
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