A lot of times you can get at the edge of the head of a bolt with a chisel and hammer a sharp barb in it to rest the chisel edge in, or a drift if it fits better, and whang away at it. Jim On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:33 PM Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote: > That flattening is the way it's made at the factory. It's a really tight > fit! > > Stuart > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf > Of Dan N > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:13 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: Coolant Drain - 2.1 L > > I wish I have better memory to help... > > about 4 years ago, on a trip to Oregon the water pump on my Suncro broke... > Scott replaced the water pump with me as a helper... we worked for 6 hours > straight, without removing the pulley or the muffler... I don't remember > how we did it... > > today I went under the van a have a look.. I notice that the metal cross > pipe (under the pulley) was flattened just a bit - nor even .5".. > > this could be your solution... > > please ask if you need a pic of it... > > dan > |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.