Hi,
thank you for responding. YOu menttion "
Tara, you will have to remove the timing belt to change the water pump. That is a disadvantage of driving the pump with the timing belt."
Are you refering to the timing belt, or the serpentine belt?
The serpentine belt is the one that provides power to the alternator, water pump, power steering and A/C.
We have the serpentine belt removed, and have the water pump disconnected. I agree with you the crankshaft damper bolt and pulley need to be removed.
The main problem now isT getting clearance to remove the water pump from the car.
It looks like once that pulley is removed, we can physically remove the disconnected water pump.
But we do have to keep the engine from rotating. We will have to jam the flywheel somehow as you mention.The haynes book mentiones a crankshaft damper puller tool to remove the damper. but I don't know where that would be at, or the crankshaft damper installer. maybe the ford dealer, which we are trying to avoid by doing this ourselves.
Thank you!
Tara
