water pump and pulley removal

["Stella Chia" <stelc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

It was time to replace the water pump on the GTj.  There appeared to be a
growing spray of brown gunk under the hood.  I started the car today and
there was this noise that I haven't noticed before.  I went around with a
long metal rod to my ear and the various spinning parts and finally, the
waterpump was indeed making a huge racket.  Stopped the car grabbed the
pulley and it was loose.  Must have been only 50 or 60K miles on the last
one.  Sigh...Oh well.

US$30 later I was at my friendly garage - I have a special deal, the owner
is my neighbour of 25 years, so I get to work my car there for free and have
the expertise of his mechanic too - Anyway, most of you with the 105 engines
would know of the difficulty of removing the waterpump without first
removing the crankshaft pulley or one or two studs.

Thats whare  I got stuck.  The mechanic comes over, looks at it and declares
that (he dosen't work on Alfas, but I mentioned to him, after reading it on
the Digest) more than 1 stud would have to come out.  Instead...

After eyeballing it, he takes a 36mm socket and a metre long breaker bar
puts it on the crankshaft pulley nut, jam the other end of the bar onto the
left end of the engine bay, disconnect the coil lead, "everyone stand back!"
and cranks the engine.  Once - the engine painfully (for me) torques on it
mounts , twice (I am more fascinated than scared at this point) and the bar
drops off.  It off, he declares.

Happily, I continue the work.  It builds confidence when you know that
someone is watching over you.  Anyone bold enough to try?

Andrew C
1300 GTj

PS  In case this is a standard procedure known to all, I'm sorry for wasting
bandwidth

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