Hey Jason - no problem, F4gary is a good guy and we've got to spread some appreciation his way too !!
So now on to Phase II - with the belts and the smog pump removed, we need to make a little more room by removing the smog pump mounting bracket and the upper radiator hose. The hose is pretty straight forward, just make sure to be careful if you do any twisting of the hose where it attaches to the elbow on the top of the radiator. Like the bottom end those connections to the radiator are thin metal brazed to the radiator tanks. You would not be the first person to rip the metal elbow right off the radiator by twisting it. Sounds like you have a good radiator, be gentle with it when taking hoses on or off.
So now back to the smog mounting bracket - you'll notice on the bottom it is held in place by one of the 4 bolts that attaches the water pump. Go ahead and take that bolt out and mark it top RH WP bolt or something you'll remember. The second bolt that holds the SP bracket on goes into the intake manifold, go ahead and remove it, mark it also and keep it with the smog pump bracket.
Now your ready for the fan, fan clutch and WP pulley. Prior to removing anything, make note of the clearance you have from the back of the pulley to the top of the water pump casting. You should a 1/16" or more. Use this as a reference to compare that same clearance when you install the new pump. 99% of the time that clearance will be the same and you'll be fine. If that clearance gets significantly tighter, you may have to shim the pump pulley out. We'll worry about that when your back in reassembly mode.
Leave the fan attached to the clutch (silver thing with the aluminum fins) and look for the four bolts holding the clutch to the WP. Remove each of those four nuts, if the stud comes with any of the nuts that's okay. With all four removed, move the fan and clutch forward and it should tilt backward and out of the radiator shroud. Be careful not to gouge the backside of the radiator with the fan blades. With the fan and clutch out of the car you can remove the WP pulley and clearly start to see the WP.
Disconnect the lower radiator hose from the pump along with the heater hose that is attached to the pump. Now is a good time to check the condition of both heater hoses and determine if they are in good shape or need replacement. If you chose to replace the heater hoses, note their routing down to the heater core and be very careful with their connections. The heater core is just a smaller version of the radiator and replacing one of those is C3 nightmare #2. If you go there, also make note that the hoses are two different sizes (5/8" and 3/4"). Smaller one to the intake, larger one to the pump. If I'm removing old hoses to replace, I prefer to gently cut them off with a sharp utility knife and avoid any excessive twisting. Reinstalling new hoses I always make sure the metal tube or elbow is clean and coat the inside of the hose with a small amount of Vaseline or just wet it with some new antifreeze.
So with the hoses out of the way, go back to the water pump bolts on the passenger side, one has already been removed when you took off the smog pump bracket, there is a second down lower, remove that bolt. You may get some antifreeze out of either bolt hole - nothing to worry about. Make sure to mark that bolt bottom RH WP.
With those two bolts out of the way, you'll notice there is another cast bracket overlapping the WP on that side, that bracket goes up to the A/C compressor. In order to get the pump in and out that bracket needs to be removed or swung out of the way to get the pump by, I prefer to remove it. That bracket is a two piece assembly and if you can locate and remove the correct bolts, that bracket can be removed while the second part stays attached to the A/C compressor. Here's a great place to take some pictures because once that bracket is out it may be a little confusing how it goes back in later.
So with the A/C bracket removed or out of the way the only thing holding the pump in place are the two bolts on the LH or driver's side. The top one should be the stud that was holding the smog pump and alt. tension brackets, the bottom should be just a simple bolt, mark both as top and bottom LH WP bolts. It may sound silly, but those four bolts are all different lengths and have caused more than a few guys problems on the reassembly.
With all four bolts removed and if your WP hasn't already fallen out, all that's holding it will be some gasket material and it should come out with a bit of a pry and wiggle of the WP. Congrats', your half way there !!
Let me know if you have any ??? or prefer a little less detail. I'll post up Phase III tomorrow.
Good Luck !!!
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John Sigmund
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NCRS Member 61302
NW NCRS Chapter Member
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