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water pump nightmare *UPDATE*

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cardiff_gareth:
guess what picture the scene, you've spent ages trying to gain access to last bolt that holds on the water pump, you know the one that is half hidden behind the pulley and the one that bolts into the engine block, tried removing the fan but didn't have spanner big enough (not that I didn't try with the gas pipe plyers :!: )
so you've spend ages trying to remove the fan to remove the fan couling to get better access and then after several hours you think, hmm, I have a smaller socket set that will get on them pulley nuts so you get the pulley off and then ta-da, you can see the nut. Get the 10mm socket out and give it the very last bolt a twist and its really stiff, so you get a extension for more leverage, second turn, SNAP

Gutted, I felt sick, I just crumpled over the grill and sat there flabber gasted, couldn't even talk :cry:

Spoke to Wizard who got my spirits back up, he reacons that when I bolt it together it shouldn't leak and when it comes to timing belt change, the garage should be able to see a bit of this bolt then so might be able to get it out then.

Still feel sick, couldn't even bring myself to put it back together.

POTASH:
i did the same thing, last bolt was that tight i swear it was welded on, it snapped of but managed to get the threaded part out and put a different bolt back in :evil:

Les Henson:
If you use RTV sealant on the new gasket you may get away with it. It's very common for one or more of the three long bolts to snap.


Les.

cardiff_gareth:

--- Quote from: "Les Henson" ---If you use RTV sealant on the new gasket you may get away with it. It's very common for one or more of the three long bolts to snap.


Les.
--- End quote ---


What is RTV sealent :?:

Range Rover Blues:
Lots of WD40 and some heat might help loosen it when the time comes.  If it's going into Ali then you have the obvious bimetallic corrosion rpoblem but fortunately Ali expnds almost twice as much as iron/steel, so take the bolts out of a hot engine :wink:

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