yeah it is a little bug to deal with

 

Thank god for making the water pump so easy to get to.

 

They do make them easy but still a pain.

 

Hey Hydra, what did you find to be a pain? The pain for me was scraping off the old gasket from the engine, getting of the rad hose on top, and pulling out that pipe on the side. This is for you DIY minded folks out there

 

Well removing the fan is a pain in it's self.

Second like you said scraping the surfaces.

Hey, is that the old bi-pass hose we were talking about? I hope this was a before replacement of it?

Also, which RTV silicone did you chose?

 

Yeah I just used some vise grips to hold the pulley still while I got the fan off.
The pic is before I cleaned everything up and removed the hose.
The RTV silicone I used was permatex ultra black, I always use sealant for my water pumps and t-stats, it makes the easier to get the gasket off

 

Dude one of those BS plastic clamps that connect the hoses to the rad cap housing freaken broke. Lucky I was able to use a clamp to tighten the hose back to the BS plastic housing.