99 D2 w/ACE 135K mi.

Have to replace the power steering pump (hopefully that's all). I have the rave CD for the D2 now (can't believe I got this far w/o it), which has a great step by step for the job.

I'm stuck at getting the pulley off the power steering pump, how to loosen the three 10mm bolts that hold it to the hub without spinning the pump shaft???

I tried with the serpentine belt in place, box wrench on the 10mm bolt and pounding the end of the wrench with a hammer.... just spins the pump.

Any idears gents?


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Nikol

 

You cant loosen any of the bolts?

 

Not without spinning the shaft. I haven't tried with two wrenches yet, one loosening and another counteracting the rotation. I am trying to do the job w/o taking out the radiator fan. It's too dang cold in the garage now to keep fiddling with it, its supposed to warm up to a balmy 20 degrees tomorrow so I will give er a go then, practically a heatwave compared to the sub zero highs of late.
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FIX PS3

 

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...ctId=100652235
One of the best investments I have made for my garage is one of these, when I am working in the garage I close the door and turn on the heater, you wont be wearing shorts but your wont freeze either.
Not working in the garage I turn it off.

Does the new pump not come with a pully?

 

where did you download the rave for the D2?

 

green-oval.com
http://green-oval.com/joomla/index.p...&Itemid=29

The download is a 600meg iso image file that has to be burned to a cd using a cd burn software. The output is a CD that contains a collection of executables and PDFs. Its sick. I would GLADLY send some one the CC# for the wealth of info contained within, but i undertstand LR doesnt sell it... oh well.
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MARY JANE

 

Yep/ I've already got the costco version and it's goodness for sure. It's a 1500 sqft garage with windows/doorson three walls, and its 25 below zero right now. -25F. The little guy just can't keep up.

The Rave CD manual calls for the pulley to be removed to access the bolts that hold the pump on. The picture fo the pump also shows it w/o the pulley mounted.

Just looking for some helpful hints from someone who has done the job before. I'll eventually get it figured out tomorrow, just hoping someone could save me a few hours of frigid misery...

thx- duc




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Wendie 99

 

Good luck with it. I have no other ideas, sorry.

 

Spray some penetrating oil on the bolts. Heat the hub with a propane or mapp gas torch (mapp gas is hotter). Use an air or electric impact. If all that fail's you can always drill the heads off.

Willie

 

Had something equally horrible with an older BMW a while back.... ended up getting a piece of flat stock, cutting it so it fits within the circumference of the pulleyand drilling two holes the same distance apart as any two of the bolts.Cut a square hole in the middle so you can put a half in breaker bar in the middle... this will allow you to hold the pulley still by locking two of the three bolts while undoing the third... It's a complete pain and on principle, it shouldn't be like that, but in the end it's what I had to do. I tried to draw a picture of this in paint, but couldn't get it uploaded properly.

Good luck.

J