RE: Spica wrench?

[Hirsch <Catenary@domain.elided>]

Dean Cains wrote:

>> I was going to pull the Spica pump by working from the top and
removing the 6 nuts holding the pump body to its base, but I'm
afraid I won't be able to re-install the 3 nuts on the block
side of the pump. <<

IME the easiest way to remove the injection pump is to remove the six
10mm nuts and leave the lower filter holding portion on the engine block.
I would NOT try to remove the pump by removing the four lower, larger nuts.

To ease removing the 10mm nuts I use a 10mm 6-point 1/4-inch drive
socket and two 6-inch 1/4-inch drive extensions. In removing the
six nuts, I hold a magnet near the socket to pick up the nuts and
washers before they fall into the abyss. To reinstall the nuts on
the studs, I preload a nut into the 10mm socket and hold the nut in
place with a fragment of masking tape. My 10mm socket is fairly
deep so I load it up with two 10mm nuts so the nut that gets screwed
onto the stud is slightly emerging from the edge of the 10mm socket.
This makes starting a nut easier.

Good luck,

Rich Hirsch
St Louis MO

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