RE: spider 2000 water pump

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> Well, Les, according to my shop manual (and watching it done on my Spider
> last year because I don't have the equipment to pull the crank pulley
> here at home), the water pump cannot be removed without removing the
> crank pulley on the 2000 engine .. there's evidently a clearance problem.
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les divulged the trick for changing two liter water pumps without removing
the crank pulley years ago, and it saved my butt with the alfetta in wyoming
last fall.

the trick is to double nut and remove the two lower water pump studs - with
those two studs out of the block the pump comes right out.

thanks again, les!

bs

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