Need help with water pump pulley

[the_skin_eater]

Ok. I looked, but to no avail.

I can not get the stupid w/p pulley off. I tried loosening those bolts with the belt on, but it still rotates.(the w/p that is, i stopped the belt from rotating) Off and holding it, kills my hand.

I have to get this off, and its the only thing stopping me right now. What should I do?

 

[travislaw]

Ok. I looked, but to no avail.

I can not get the stupid w/p pulley off. I tried loosening those bolts with the belt on, but it still rotates.(the w/p that is, i stopped the belt from rotating) Off and holding it, kills my hand.

I have to get this off, and its the only thing stopping me right now. What should I do?

Do you have a long screw driver? Stick it through the water pump pulley holes on the side of the pulley closest to the front of the car. Turn the belt until the screwdriver stops the pulley from moving. Then crank the Water pump pulleys off. Just did this 2 weeks ago.

 

[housegsx]

I don't think there are holes in the water pump pulley to be able stop it with a screw driver.
Leaving the belt on along with the power steering pump belt is your best bet. That pulley does have holes so you can jam it up to stop the other pulley via the belt.
I've also gotten it off before by taking the belt off and putting a closed end wrench on the bolts and letting the wrench hit the body while I rotate the pulley by hand to break the bolts free.

 

[ROOKIE1]

Use 2 wrenches .

 

[housegsx]

Use 2 wrenches .

GENIUS!!!

 

[the_skin_eater]

Ya, Both wreches is what I was thinkin. I gotta go buy another.

I tried putting a screw-driver into the P/S, but it didnt help, the other pulley spun still....Theres only one belt on it though, didnt come with another one, for the crank pulley is gone.

Ill try though when I get out of work and let ya know. Thanks.

 

[brute]

You think taking it off is hard... Wait till you gotta put it back on...

 

[the_skin_eater]

pulling the engine is sounding better and better as the day goes.

 

[travislaw]

I don't think there are holes in the water pump pulley to be able stop it with a screw driver.
Leaving the belt on along with the power steering pump belt is your best bet. That pulley does have holes so you can jam it up to stop the other pulley via the belt.
I've also gotten it off before by taking the belt off and putting a closed end wrench on the bolts and letting the wrench hit the body while I rotate the pulley by hand to break the bolts free.

I meant the power steering pulley housegsx? See the picture for a visual example. It works, like I said, I just did it 2 weeks ago. Of course you would have to do this while the belt connected to the water pump, and power steering was still on.

 

[housegsx]

Oh ok. Yep, that what we were both saying.
Either your belt isn't tight enough to allow the pulley to slip or those are some seriously seized up bolts. Spray the bolts, tighten the belt some more and try the screwdriver method again if the 2 wrenches isn't working.

 

[crazyzx9rguy]

Better yet take a long screwdriver and put it inbetween 2 of the bolts , break them loose do not take tmen out cause you will need to spin pulley and get the rest of them broke loose. Works every time

 

[the_skin_eater]

Just so ya know...I went ahead with the two wrenches. Worked great. Had it off in about 10 mins.

Then I realized that I still couldnt get acces to the cover bolt behind the pulley, and not wanting to mess with that just ripped my timing cover into about 5 pieces. I was slightly upset today.
I also had to swap the front end of my saturn so I can sell it (in a wreck) and again got mad, so I took a hamer to a stuborn fender...It came right off after that

 

[luv2rallye]

When you put the water pump pulley (2 halves) back on, make sure you don't put it on backwards as some do (it looks so close it's easy to do) as that will wear out your belt very quickly. If you sight down from the other pulleys (or when the belt is on) you will see a slight offset if it's backwards.