My water pump started to make noises... so I decided to change it. I've got some experience, I did a body-off resto on a 145, and did all the regular maintenance on a 81 240 before it got totaled...... (anybody need some new-in-the-box CIS injectors?)
So I pulled the fan shroud, then the fan and clutch together, then the top half of the timing belt cover....
Got the pump off, but dropped one of the little nuts down inside the timing belt cover bottom half. Tried to use a string and magnet to recover it and the magnet dropped down inside it as well !!!
Does someone have an idea on how toI get the nut and magnet out?
Looking at the engine suggests to me that pulling the bottom of the timing belt cover means that the crank pulley has to come off...
So what's the magic incantation to pull the crank pulley?
I've got the proper socket and a breaker bar, but how do you hold the crank in place?? The pulley has one big bolt and some slots... the book shows 4 small bolts and one big bolt. Previous engines on Fords, Chevys, AMCs and Opels have all had fairly obvious methods...
Thanks in advance...
BTW, I found this page , which warns about dropping a nut... AFTER I dropped the nut inside the timing chain cover....
Mike