Rick James

cool thread..nice work Bennie, great shots..ya put the steering wheel on the wrong side but.. now we all want a rotisserie

Took mine apart also josh and have the same amount of play, appears normal but you need someone other than me verifying..it's my first go at it also. Regarding the need for grease, I didn't use anything since this thing will be bathed in oil for it's life... Getting the sprocket off without the vise must have been a trick...I put my pump in a vise, like ivan suggested, with the "inside" sprocket between two 3/4" scraps of of wood. It was pine, the sprocket ate into it splitting the wood...found some maple laying around, a serious hardwood, and had success. How did you do it? the biggest pain in the rump roast, I found, was keeping the mickey mouse o-ring in place while re-installing the pump...was very reluctant to use any gasket sealer to hold it in place being worried about scraps of sealer later clogging up any ports....98% sure it ended up where it was supposed by slipping a flat blade against it, feeler gauge blade, to keep it in place while turning the bolts...it was still a pain in the rump roast. How does anyone else do it?? a touch of sealer? string trick?

here's what i got, story sorry i didn't snap shots of the far end...will look again tomorrow.. lmk the last pic is prob power steering..a long day, I could be wrong

a live person prob doesn't read those things.. and..this is serious business

I'll take a look for the hoses tomorrow, Sat. Story _aw...are you going to jump on Subruise bracket?. you have dibs..it's your thread. I may want to stick with my bolt idea...but having the alternator tighter and lower is less of a jury rig...and no doubt slightly more structural...

traced it...the hole does continue into the pan..any oil congregating near the first hole we took pics of would have to slip back into the pan.. Both pics looking up from under the engine...oil pan removed

Is it just hoses you're looking for?...not the compressor? 6 star..how much of an increase in gas mileage?..or is it negligible...loving all the extra space

many thanks ivan...a mouthful of good info in case anyone missed it...right after "gone"

Storydude, thanks for clearing that up.. if for whatever reason _aw changes his mind on removal, you can have my parts...you in buffalo ny??...i'm thinking no cause it doesn't get that hot there does it? moonman, it must have been your post I remember reading some time ago re; the toggle switch..great ingenuity loving the clear explanations...I need these and have no shame.. or at least am losing any shame.. many thanks to all

wanna make sure we're clear on the location of the hole... it's on the block casting not the removable pump... I poked around and the walls of the hole's tunnel seem fairly smooth...also the face of the hole isn't as rough as I'd originally thought... joshjosh (the original poster) and i have the same hole...anyone else?? edit...can't seem to rotate the pic

def wanna open up space and a little more gas mileage wouldn't hurt.. but why is there a "clutch" fan?? is it sucking air toward the rear of the engine or blowing at the radiator? _aw did you do take the compressor out yet?? [edited] I just did ...in the pic the white vertical is rolled up paper towel...the bolt holes appear to line up good enough to replace paper towel with a long bolt and sleeve as a spacer... can use same belts and pretty sure it would be structurally sound.. edit..did I say condenser?? I did mean compressor, right? and I could be wrong about using the same size belt due the compressor adding height....or not..I dunno, yet

you know, it prob doesn't make sense to remove any fan (unless yur adding like kanury's did?)...there's gotta be some cooling benefit, right? ..think there's a thread (searched, couldn't find) where someone rigged the electric fan with a toggle switch operated from the inside of the car, so they can put it on whenever they wanted..

Put a wiper arm on

Can we get a consensus on this? Admittedly, it's a rough looking hole, maybe a bad casting.... many thanks..will do

my understanding is that it's the cylinder that these pics focus on.. .well the one with the rust and the wire going to it