I'm removing my water pump to replace it since the thing is shot. I've never messed with this before and can't get the fan and fan-drive off of the pulley. Other online instructions don't help at all. Any advice on how to get the dang fan drive off??

 

I just took the whole thing off with the old water pump and now I'm forced to do electric fans lol

 

Leave the serp belt ON. Get a big wrench, either crescent wrench, or pipe wrench. Put it on the 'nut' that screws onto the water pump snout. SMACK the end of the wrench with a big *** hammer, to get it to break loose.

 

Damn, I hear you. I had trouble with that too. I got one of the loner tools from auto zone but the only one that fit was warped- so it slipped right off. On top of that the haynes manual says 36 but thats horse **** Because the 36 was two big on mine. I ended saying **** it and took it off with the fan clutch and fan still on. I than put it in a vise also C-clamped the pulley and water pump. than stuck a screw driver in between the pulley and pump. Thats when i hit it with a 12 inch adj. wrench and got the fan clutch to put on the new water pump. I would do as heyyou suggested and also invest in a big 12 inch adj. wrench.

 

36mm combination wrench and universal pulley holder, NAPA P/N 3900 (or SRV3900). The pulley holder is about the best twenty bucks I've spent all year.

 

Yep I got the pulley holder deal as pictured above. In the past I've also taken a few long bolts that fit into the holes and put a prybar between them to hold it from moving. Then had to use a breaker bar to break the nut loose.

 

I also used a bolt inserted into one of the holes and used a prybar. But I need to get one of those super duper spanners like Unregisterd has - if I don't get it now, I'll be kicking myself the next time I need it.

 

all you really need is a monkey wrench thats long enough to fit over the fan shroud and hit it with a hammer thats how i got my new one off. My old fan clutch the bolt was striped and everytime I tryed to get the bolt off it just kept spinning so I had to cut it with a torch to get the fan from the fan clutch.\

 

i couldn't get my fan off either, so i unbolted the water pump with the fan still attached, then lifted out water pump, fan, shroud all at once.

after that, i put the water pump in the vise and removed the fan.

 

Thanks guys. I couldn't find a pulley holder anywhere and whackin the wrench with a hammer didn't help, so I took the assembly out as a whole. At the automotive shop down the street, they took an air-chisel and broke it lose that way. SO for future reference: stuck fan + air chisel = problem solved.