I recently replaced my water pump; the old one was leaking a little.
Mostly, the job went OK, just taking me some time, since I'm not really a mechanic.
The part that caused me to profess a few cuss words was reinstalling the fan blade. You have to line up the four bolt holes in the water pump, pulley, and the fan blade. This is not an easy task. In addition, you do not have a lot of room because of the plastic shroud-it appeared that you had to have the shroud on while attaching the blade. I couldn't see how you could install fan blade first, then shroud. I did finally get the fan installed, but it took 1-2 hours just for this one part.
My question then, is there an easier way to re-attach the fan blade short of removing the radiator?
1982 F100 302 V8, 136000 miles AC, PB, PS, Auto