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mcarthey
Dodge Dakota
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8/15/2004
14:38:14
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 Subject: remove pump from reservoir?
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Thinking I'd save some cash I only purchased the power steering pump (without the reservoir). I've got all the parts laid out and am finding it's tough to get the pump out of the reservoir. It seems that there were only two bolt holding the pump to the reservoir, but it won't come out. From looking at the new one it looks like there might be some sort of seal around the face of it. Should I just tap it out with a soft hammer?
Any tips?
Thanks!
Mark
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mcarthey
Dodge Dakota
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8/15/2004
21:14:47
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Well, I ended up just taking the pump back and bought the pump w/ reservoir. Much easier. I still don't know whether the pump could have been removed, but in the end it was *much* less work. No big problems. The bolt that holds the bracket down along with the ground wires was so messed that I had ended up breaking the electrical ring connectors. I just bought some new connectors and crimped them on. The wires are *almost* too short now since they weren't very long to being with. At least they're on.
On a side note, I was planning ahead and checking out my exhaust manifold bolts and messed around for a while trying to get them loose. They've never been touched (on a '97) so I was hammering on sockets, using vice grips, box end wrenches, tapping the bolts with hammers, and of course using lots of Kroil. Nothing was working. It wasn't my primary goal for the day so I wasn't working on it terribly hard, but I *hate* grinding off bolt heads so I thought I'd try something I had seen at Sears. I was only up to my 3rd run to the store for the project so I headed out to Sears and picked up their socket bolt/nut extractors. If you haven't seen this, they're basically sockets with teeth. When you run them counter-clockwise they bite into the head and back it out... in theory anyway. I can say, though, that they work great! It was nearly a miracle at how easily the bolt backed out. I figured with all the rust they were just going to end up biting big pieces out of the head and leaving me with nothing. They actually came off with only about 20 ft-lbs of torque (my estimate) and only about a 1/4 turn. Very nice. I'd highly recommend them.
Anyway, that's my summary for my day. Enjoyable, but I could have done with more performance additions. ;) Maybe next week.
Later,
Mark
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