I finally got tired of dealing with the leaking timing cover water pump deal, when I bought the car I noticed one bolt head was missing and I what I figured was the case, on both sides the outer most bolt on the water pump was broken off in the block/timing cover. So I figured it wouldnt be too bad of a task to perform, but once I tore into it I was having flashbacks of when I couldnt get the egr spacer off because the studs were seized up from rust. So the new ARP bolts from LMR just got here today and I dropped my wife and daughter off at the airport so I have exactly 7 days to get my car back together.
I also bought a new water pump, gasket set and new water neck that goes on the intake mani. I'm just kind of hung up right now because the bolt on the harmonic balancer is being stuborn but my friend is going to bring his tiny air compressor and hopefully its got enough volume to bust the bolt with an impact. From there I'm drilling the bolts out in hopes of being able to pop the timing cover lose and I'm going to try and leave enough bolt to get the vise grips on them. There was about 3/4" sticking out on the left side and I've heated and soaked with pb blaster and ended up just snapping what was left off too. I realized the timing cover is holding about 2" of bolt that is welded in with rust so hopefully when the cover comes off whats left will spin out without too much of a fight. Tomorrow I'm going by the scrap yards to see what prospects of other covers are incase things get crazy and I take a BFH to it.
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I also bought a new water pump, gasket set and new water neck that goes on the intake mani. I'm just kind of hung up right now because the bolt on the harmonic balancer is being stuborn but my friend is going to bring his tiny air compressor and hopefully its got enough volume to bust the bolt with an impact. From there I'm drilling the bolts out in hopes of being able to pop the timing cover lose and I'm going to try and leave enough bolt to get the vise grips on them. There was about 3/4" sticking out on the left side and I've heated and soaked with pb blaster and ended up just snapping what was left off too. I realized the timing cover is holding about 2" of bolt that is welded in with rust so hopefully when the cover comes off whats left will spin out without too much of a fight. Tomorrow I'm going by the scrap yards to see what prospects of other covers are incase things get crazy and I take a BFH to it.
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