----- Original Message -----
From Karen & Greg <higgs at cgocable.net>
To: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
Cc: <spridgets@auto.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: Go hug your LBC (mostly LGC, not much LBC)
> Ron
>
> There is a vender who will be at Carlisle next month who sells a 32 mm
> open/box end wrench that will fit there nut on your clutch fan, to get
your
> water pump off. The vender was charging $8.00 last year, and he had lots
of
> them.
> Greg Higgins
> 63 HAN/7
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:22 PM
> Subject: Go hug your LBC (mostly LGC, not much LBC)
>
>
> > What's the longest it has ever taken you to change an
> > LBC water pump, 1/2 hr, an hour tops?
> >
> > After holiday festivities, I went to do the water pump
> > on my '87 325iS (it lasted 13+ years, I got no quibble
> > there). Remove 3 under car aero shrouds. Remove
> > radiator, remove fan shroud, remove fan and pulley
> > (32mm wrench, anyone?). Remove fan lower pulley.
> > Remove every hose. Remove alternator bracket. Remove
> > crank acceleration sensor. Remove various other
> > sensors and wires. Remove harmonic balancer and
> > puller. Remove cap and rotor and dust cover (ROTOR IS
> > HELD IN BY 3 ODD SIZE TORX SCREWS!!@!@#). Remove
> > timing cover, upper half only. Remove tensioner pin
> > and spring. Remove water pump. I'm done for the
> > night. LBC tomorrow, by necessity. Installation, as
> > they say, is supposed to be the reverse of removal.
> >
> > Go hug your LBC. Take solace in its simplicity.
> > Sometimes "better" is the enemy of "good enough".
> >
> > =====
> > Ron Soave
> > "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I
> mean." - Mark Twain
> >
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> >
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> >
>
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