Originally Posted by
harold harper
you could make a tool to fit in those two holes,basically a spanner wrench or take three pairs of vise grips to the pulley a wedge them in place to hold so you can turn the nut.
I tried that yesterday. The first one I made from an old bracket and the metal was too thin and just bent as I tried to use it. There went 1 hour shot. I have some angle iron here from a trailer repair I did. So at first I cut up a bolt and welded the ends to the angle iron to fit in the holes. But the ends kept sheering off and wouldnt hold. So I drilled holes and put bolts through where I could bolt the tool to the pulley and all I did was break bolts left and right. 3 hours shot in that process. Basically wasted my day trying to make something work,.. and all I did was make myself frustrated and pissed off at GM for making a retarded design like this.
Wake up early this morning thinking I'll run out to Sears and get a strap wrench and its a friggen torrential down pour with thunder and lightning out. The 6.0 is safe under the roof on my back porch. But no way in hell I'm doing the water pump in my truck in freezing rain plus I dont mess around when its lightning out. I had a bad experience when I was younger and saw first hand what a man looks like after getting hit with lightning. I threw up and have had nothing but respect for it ever since.
I'll keep you guys posted. The rain is supposed to let up later today. I'll take a crack at it then. I want to experiment on the 6.0 first before I do the 5.3 in my truck. Sometimes what seems like such a simple job turns into a cluster fuck like this when you dont have the right tools. Besides the 5.3 in my truck which other than knock sensors and regular maintenance has been trouble free for almost 4 years now. I'm approaching 120k on my truck. Going back on memory,.. previous GM water pumps on older older motors were usually good for about 50k miles. So I guess getting 120k out of this one is doing good. But then I had over 200k on the factory water pump in my 2v 4.6. This is my first time really working on the GM LSx engines. Really have no experience before this. I have to admit though,.. the learning curve here is much simpler than when I first cracked open the 2v 4.6 in my 96 Mustang.
Hurst