fan clutch removal??
#11
RE: fan clutch removal??
I ended up making a tool for this job.
Buy a 3-foot piece of flat steel (1/8" thick by 1" wide). About 1/2" from the end, drill one 1/4" hole. Tap that hole with 5/16" tap. Thread in a 5/16" x 1" hex-head bolt. Now do the same thing 3" on-center from the first hole. Now you have a long piece of metal with two bolts threaded through it, and those bolts correspond to the holes in the water pump pulley. Standing at the passenger side fender, hold your new "bar tool" in your left hand (make sure bolts are sitting well into the pulley holes), and grab your 1.5" adjustable wrench with your right hand. Now push with your left and pull with your right. It'll come off. Mine would not come off with a strap wrench. It was the stock clutch and it had been on there for 6 years...so it was STUCK. But this tool got it loose.
Good luck!
Buy a 3-foot piece of flat steel (1/8" thick by 1" wide). About 1/2" from the end, drill one 1/4" hole. Tap that hole with 5/16" tap. Thread in a 5/16" x 1" hex-head bolt. Now do the same thing 3" on-center from the first hole. Now you have a long piece of metal with two bolts threaded through it, and those bolts correspond to the holes in the water pump pulley. Standing at the passenger side fender, hold your new "bar tool" in your left hand (make sure bolts are sitting well into the pulley holes), and grab your 1.5" adjustable wrench with your right hand. Now push with your left and pull with your right. It'll come off. Mine would not come off with a strap wrench. It was the stock clutch and it had been on there for 6 years...so it was STUCK. But this tool got it loose.
Good luck!
#13
Newbie here...... going nuts with trying to get the fan off. After coming to realize I needed to make a tool. The fan goes counter-clockwise. That means I need to turn the nut clockwise. Correct? I read something about the nut coming off counter-clockwise (ooops) Its has now been seated fairly tightly. Thanks in advance.
#14
Newbie here...... going nuts with trying to get the fan off. After coming to realize I needed to make a tool. The fan goes counter-clockwise. That means I need to turn the nut clockwise. Correct? I read something about the nut coming off counter-clockwise (ooops) Its has now been seated fairly tightly. Thanks in advance.
#16