[Vwdiesel] waterpump removal advice requested

[R. Brown]

Chuck Carnohan wrote:
> Ray~
> Though I respect Roger and his site greatly I'm not quite in agreement with him on this particular cheap trick. I say lock down the IP remove the intermediate pulley and go for the wasserpumpen. All the fooling around with bent wrenches and hoping that that nothing 10mm is seized isn't worth the trouble. If you are careful and don't bump anything around too much the timing belt goes right back where it was and the job is a piece of cake. So far as where you buy the pump- if the pump at autozone looks to be of good quality and isn't from Japan (no lie, I bought one from AutoZone from Japan that didn't last a year!) it is nice on these pumps to be able to compare and make sure you are getting the right one. www.stopshopanddrive is also a good source online. 
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> Chuck Carnohan
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One reason I unbolted the A/C bracket was to perform a repair on that as 
well.  Figured I would kill 2 birds with one stone, as they say.  Plus 
at the time, I did not have the pump timing tools, so did not want to 
get into that area.

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  Roger