RE: spider 2000 water pump

[Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@domain.elided>]

Thanks, that makes sense. 

I'm certain no or very few Alfa service shops use that trick, though. 
There is always the risk when removing the studs that you will strip the 
aluminum threads in the timing cover, causing even more time to be spent 
on the task, and that additional time would be at the shop's risk, in 
general. For an individual owner working on their own car it's a 
reasonable risk to take. 

Godfrey

>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.
>
>> 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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