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| Author: | 73dust225 [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Idler arm bolt how do I get it out? |
Started taking apart my front suspension today to rebuild and change over to front Disc brakes when I tried to take out my Idler arm bolt it hits the oil pump  .Is there any trick to get this out or do I have to raise the engine or take off the oil pump? thanks Richard
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| Author: | DusterIdiot [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Yep... |
Quote: Is there any trick to get this out or do I have to raise the engine or take off the oil pump?
That's pretty much it...-D.Idiot |
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:47 pm ] |
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Loosen the motor mount bolt and tilt the engine up. You can get the bolt out w/o removing the oil pump. The bolt goes in like that to keep it from falling out if the nut comes off. 
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| Author: | 73dust225 [ Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:11 pm ] |
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Thanks for the help.I guess sometimes you just have to work for it. |
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| Author: | RDJ [ Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:44 pm ] |
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Does anybody ever put the nut on top? It does have a castle nut and cotter pin. Or is this a considered too dangerous. |
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| Author: | 73dust225 [ Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:10 am ] |
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I found a cheat.The bolt hits the pump cover so I looked in my repair book shows no springs or anything that would pop out just the gear and cam so I took out the 4 lower bolts and loosened the top one and pulled the cover away a little, got a little oil(1/4 cup maybe) held gear in place took cover off pulled bolt out switched idler arm put bolt back in replaced cover and done.After I finished suspension started car checked for leak from pump none yet.I did check with kragen auto and they can get the O-ring gasket for the pump cover $1.49. 
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| Author: | 1980volare [ Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:11 pm ] |
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im going to put my idler arm on tmrw,so im going to try to do the pump cover trick. and if that wont work ill loosen up the motor mount. |
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