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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 04:45 PM
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Default Power Steering Pump removal problem: SOLVED

So I was knee-deep in my heads/cam swap when it came time to do the nasty. As I was scratching my head and swearing at my car, I rememberd I had this tool sitting with my Mountain Bike Overhaul kit.

You can get it at any bike shop, I don't recall it being too expensive. It's small, strong, and cut the pump bracket removal time down to 1 minute - piece of cake.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 05:05 PM
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Nice find!
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 05:14 PM
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Or you can just rent a power steering pulley puller and have it done faster....its much easier to get to those bolts once the pulley is off.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 08:22 PM
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at about 1 minute to take the whole bracket off, I think I'll choose the simpler way.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 08:37 PM
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LOL.....Nice!
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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 02:11 PM
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God bless you for this extremely handy solution. I just started teardown today and ran accross this post. I took my laptop to the bike shop down the street. The guy put one on order for me and let me borrow his for the time being. This is a must have for anyone attempting H/C installs. Dude, you rock!
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 05:20 AM
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whats the exact name of the tool?
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by joshp14
Or you can just rent a power steering pulley puller and have it done faster....its much easier to get to those bolts once the pulley is off.
definatly quicker to pull that pulley. Easily takes 1 minute.
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Nice tool, but luckily I have the Turn One Pump and their pulley. It'll take me a minute to get the pump off now
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ninobrn99
whats the exact name of the tool?
Apparently it's a Cone Wrench:

http://harriscyclery.net/itemdetails.cfm?id=617
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