When installing a EWP?
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Staging Lane
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When installing a EWP? As I sit here looking at a box of parts (from my favorite mail order) one being a electric water pump I wonder when I install the ewp do I need to remove the waterpump gear out of the engine? I had planed on removing the pan and timing cover Replacing the oil pump front and rear seal etc. I also plan on replacing the cap roter etc and clutch. Also can you remove the pan in the car? Thanks in advance.
As I sit here looking at a box of parts (from my favorite mail order) one being a electric water pump I wonder when I install the ewp do I need to remove the waterpump gear out of the engine? I had planed on removing the pan and timing cover Replacing the oil pump front and rear seal etc. I also plan on replacing the cap roter etc and clutch. Also can you remove the pan in the car? Thanks in advance.
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I'd be careful saying definitively that you can remove the oil pan on car. I had to remove the motor mounts, jack up the engine, and nearly remove the k-member to get mine out on an M6. Also you don't have to remove the gear, it is a good idea though since you are planning on removing the timing cover. You will need an LT1 specific wp drive gear puller (or you can fab one up.)
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Staging Lane
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Alright WTF!!!!!!
I got the water pump out of the car and started to get it ready to install the ewp but cant seam to figure out how to remove the stock impeller and shaft.
Am I retarded or what? Any help would be great. Also when installing the ewp is there anything I have to do to the weep hole?
I got the water pump out of the car and started to get it ready to install the ewp but cant seam to figure out how to remove the stock impeller and shaft. Am I retarded or what? Any help would be great. Also when installing the ewp is there anything I have to do to the weep hole? 
trust me i know what you mean about what a PITA it is tearing it down. it too kme half a day to get mine this far with hand tools...
and it all started out by just needing to replace the cap and rotor
and it all started out by just needing to replace the cap and rotor
Alright WTF!!!!!! I got the water pump out of the car and started to get it ready to install the ewp but cant seam to figure out how to remove the stock impeller and shaft. Am I retarded or what? Any help would be great. Also when installing the ewp is there anything I have to do to the weep hole?
I got the water pump out of the car and started to get it ready to install the ewp but cant seam to figure out how to remove the stock impeller and shaft. Am I retarded or what? Any help would be great. Also when installing the ewp is there anything I have to do to the weep hole?You don't need to do anything with the weep hole. When you install the new pump and freeze plug it is no longer used.
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Staging Lane
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It will never end. At least I'm getting a reason to buy a cai and new clutch
No, actually it would be fine if you just remove the waterpump drive shaft. I doubt that he's talking about the parts inside the pump itself as removing that is a given. However, if you're going through the trouble of pulling the timing cover it wouldn't make sense not to remove it and put a new timing set in it.
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Staging Lane
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I was actully talking about the timing cover. I'm not sure if I will be pulling the cover or if I will wait till I do a cam swap. I'm having trouble removing the impeller shaft right now (no press).
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Staging Lane
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Problem solved. The local parts stores don't have crap for LT1's Thread Starter
Staging Lane
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Well S**t!!!!!! Lets see I found the timing cover gasket set and a 160 thermostat, pulled the front cover and found the oil pan gasket was ripped The good news is the timing set is in decent shape. And thats about it.
Ok with the steam let off, what have you guys used to plug the waterpump drive gear hole in the timing cover? Hell I'm this far why not?
The good news is the timing set is in decent shape. And thats about it. Ok with the steam let off, what have you guys used to plug the waterpump drive gear hole in the timing cover? Hell I'm this far why not?