Or you may be able to get enough slack on the cable to pull it far enough away, but I think pulling it up is easiest.ġ7:00 when pulling out the tstat, i wasn't feeling very spatially aware and i was nervous about the whole job. Once you get the clip off and are going for the 3rd bolt, try to move hte cable up and get your socket on that bolt from underneath the cable. Look at the new pump's 'webbing' near the 3rd bolt to imagine how the clip must be on there. The clip will come off towards the passengers side. You'll have to pull it off the clip and then pry the clip off. I was coming in closer to 60-70 degrees, which made it almost impossible to loosen it.Īlso, before the 3rd water pump bolt, there's a ground table on a clip. He tries to get at the bolt from the edge of the cross member so that he's getting on it as straight as possible (maybe 30* off). My advice is to really note the angle he comes in at. I was having really fucking hard time getting the universal on there. Then lock the quick release and check that you cannot pull it off.ġ3:30 when he's getting the 3rd water pump bolt. Then I took a closer look, and realized there's a notch in the hose that goes over the tstat, and it probably had to be pushed on much more than I was pushing it. Then I'd try to pull it off as a test and it kept coming off. I kept getting it on, then putting the quick release pin back.
It has to slide pretty much alllll the way back onto the thermostat. This hose is also a bitch to get back on. That was a little hard to see so shine some light in there, and try to pry the metal clip up with a screw driver. I'm talking about the bracket piece that's left over once you remove the cooling line as shown in the video.ġ0:30 in, when he's grabbing the quick release and pulling that big ass hose out of hte thermostat. There is also a little bracket that the cooling line fits into that I also removed (10mm nut) for a bit more access room. So that's where you have to hold it wiht your wrench while you undo the 10mm nut to remove the cooling line away. The 17mm hex on the power steering cooler rubber damper is at the very bottom edge of the damper. I have done the past 20k miles (after i purchased the car with 48k) mostly as highway driving, so I may have had some life left in my pump (although hard to say without more stats on driving style and average pump life on an aggregate level).Ĭonvertibles will have to remove the 2 cross bars held on by 2 18mm and 2 16 mm bolts before removing the sway bar and power steering cooler. I was also reading the mike miller(?) maintenance PDFs, and he mentions how water pump life is probably more a function of engine hours than mileage, which makes sense. I did it on ramps with some crawling (room is tight when on the creeper). Took me 7-8 hours with a break for lunch, a nap, and lots of rewatching of the bav auto video.
SI just preemptively did my water pump and tstat on Friday.
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