i need some help replacing the water pump. can anyone help??????

 

Get yourself a Chilton or Haynes manual, will get you pretty far!

 

i have the haynes and it got me for but not far enough

 

how far along are you? I jus took out my engine not to long ago.
you prolly dun wanna take out your engine so the space would b pretty tight, you gotta take out the engine mounts, it'd b easier to move it up or down a bit....dependin on where you wanna work on it.
wats the km or miles on your car? you mite wanna change the timing belt an serpentine belt(s).

 

im all the way down to the rear cover. once i get that off then i can remove the water pump, but i cant take off the rear cover until i get the cam gears off. thats where im stuck.

 

haha I got stuck there too....cams keep turnin....wat I did was, ok behind the cam gears there should b a bolt around the bottom half of each gear. I stuck a socket on the bolts to hold the gears in place. hope that helps.
nother thing is it SOHC? mines a DOHC, I'm assumin its DOHC cause you said gears.

 

if you dont have an air ratchet or impact wrench.....you can put the timing belt around the gear and hold it tight while you loosen the bolt...or stick a screwdriver between the spokes on the gear and find sumthing to pry off of.....or hold one of the spokes with a pair of channel locks and pull up while loosening the bolt

 

I hope your doing the belt and tensioner while you are at it...

 

just get a buddy with a big pry bar, you can pry the rear cover out far enough that you can get in behind it with a 3/8s ratchet to get the water pump off.