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Water Pump Replacement

Discussion in 'Diagnosis/Help' started by rye, Jul 17, 2007.

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  1. sp0oon

    sp0oon Well-Known Member

    Your going to get a shop to do all the labour for you??
    They're probably going to charge you allot for that. Aren't there any member in your area that could help you?
     
    sp0oon, Jul 21, 2007
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  2. rye

    rye Well-Known Member Donated!

    I was quoted 3 hours for it...yeah...it sucks...and no there's no one around me that can help...boo
     
    rye, Jul 21, 2007
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  3. underscore

    underscore Well-Known Member

    just get a shop to bust that bolt loose...then tighten it back up, drive it home, and do it!
     
    underscore, Jul 22, 2007
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  4. rye

    rye Well-Known Member Donated!

    Well the Toyota dealership that I deal with is pretty good to me...I'm going to see if I can do all the shit labour myself and then maybe pull it into their garage so they can do the stuff I can't....like get that damn bolt off, and re-time the engine....

    I guess I'll just have to wait and see...sunday is just fucked anyway...so right now my car's sitting on the grass at my buddies garage :(
     
    rye, Jul 22, 2007
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  5. 1fstgts

    1fstgts Well-Known Member Staff Member Administrator Moderator Donated!

    The crank pulley is your only hold up?

    Stick a couple long extentions through the wheelwell, then put a pipe on your ratchet(makes sure its a 1/2 drive.) Wedge the extensions against the tire and the pipe against the ground. Have someone start the car for a second. Beforehand, Take off your coil wire so the damn thing doesnt actually start. Viola! Starter power to bust that bolt loose.
     
    1fstgts, Jul 22, 2007
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  6. rye

    rye Well-Known Member Donated!

    I just got ahold of a guy that rent's a shop around here...he's apprenticing to be a mechanic and he's got use of a shop...I seemed to be annoying the guy's shop I was working at because I was stealing his tools while I guess he needed some of them lol...

    I'm gonna drive the car over to the other shop on monday or tuesday and try the starter thing....

    friggin 20 year old bolts
     
    rye, Jul 22, 2007
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  7. Letze

    Letze Well-Known Member

    Guess what... the previous owner of my car has it some where... and he said if he couldn't find it he'd give me one of the GT-S covers that he has as well...

    WOOO :p
     
    Letze, Jul 22, 2007
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  8. rye

    rye Well-Known Member Donated!

    Yeah that's ALMOST the silliest question I've heard yet...if you didn't have that timing cover on there dirt and debris would get ALL over your cam gears timing belt etc.....that would be very bad and cause for a pre-ejaculated engine haha
     
    rye, Jul 22, 2007
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  9. underscore

    underscore Well-Known Member

    and a small rock or w/e could easily make that belt snap/fly off.
     
    underscore, Jul 22, 2007
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  10. The-Ghost

    The-Ghost Guest

    what is the Silliest one?
     
    The-Ghost, Jul 22, 2007
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  11. Letze

    Letze Well-Known Member

    Mine...

    "Do I "need" a timing belt cover..." LOL

    I was tooling around in my friends PT Cruiser and I found his turbo...

    he laughed his ass off when I told him "Wow... I thought my car had a small turbo... but crap... LOL"
     
    Letze, Jul 22, 2007
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  12. rye

    rye Well-Known Member Donated!

    Ah so I put all my shit back together and drove the car back home now it's in my parking lot at the apt :(

    I might try and convince the Toyota dealership I do work for to just do the shit I can't do...I'll drive it there take most of it apart outside and we can push it into the shop have them get the crankshaft pulley off and replace the water pump, put the crankshaft back on, and push the car back out!

    That'd save me at LEAST 2 hours labour, but I duno if they'd do that....any normal dealership probably not but since I do work for them all the time and they like me I just might be able to get away with it....
     
    rye, Jul 24, 2007
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  13. pyromenger

    pyromenger Guest

    I recently did my water pump and timing belt... the crank bolt on mine was a bitch to get off. I had to take it in and get a shop to use a 1000 ft/lb air hammer to get it off, using a very powerful air compressor. they did it for free for me and I did the rest of the work myself.

    another method is to jam the flywheel and use a breaker bar on the crank bolt. if a breaker bar isn't enough, then you can buy a 4 or 5 ft. long section of metal pipe from a hardware store and put it over your breaker bar to give it tons of force... I didn't do this because I didn't want to risk breaking the flywheel but it's a last ditch thing to do before paying tons of cash to a dealer.

    if your friend has a shop, though, he should have a powerful impact wrench... see if he will let you use it.
     
    pyromenger, Jul 29, 2007
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  14. 1fstgts

    1fstgts Well-Known Member Staff Member Administrator Moderator Donated!

    Id still do the starter trick. It works quite well.
     
    1fstgts, Aug 8, 2007
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  15. esraceing

    esraceing Well-Known Member

    bump on the starter trick i have done this at least 50 times
     
    esraceing, Aug 8, 2007
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