cutlass1991 Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 First off, I'm putting on a new pump. This is the old one I started with: First I bought just the pump w/o the resivoir thinking that I would reuse the one I have. Well, my mysterious leak was caused by the plastic nozzle breaking on the resivoir tank. So back to the parts store, this time I have the pump and the tank. I cannot get the pressure line off of the old pump. I used a 5/8" flare wrench on the line side and a good quality cresent wrench on the pump side. the flare wrench ended up stripping the nut on the line. I'm fucked, so I decided to take the new resivoir off of the new pump and put it on the old pump since I am assuming the leak was caused by the broken resivoir nozzle... Now I notice a small amount of liquid collect around the edge where the arrows are pointing... Is it possible for the pump to leak in this spot, or do you think it is just fluid coming from somewhere else? I have no idea what to do at this point, either finish putting on the old pump that could possible be leaking from the spot with the arrows, or figure out a way to get that stripped nut off so I can put the new pump on.... Quote
cutlsp Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 Vise grips will get that nut off.... Quote
cutlass1991 Posted October 22, 2005 Author Report Posted October 22, 2005 Vise grips will get that nut off....Vice Grips DID GET IT OFF!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
cutlsp Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 Vise grips will get that nut off....Vice Grips DID GET IT OFF!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No problem man that my solution to every thing Quote
cutlsp Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 @ this thread... Post whore...... Quote
timg Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 I stripped my brake line nuts with pipe wrenches and had to use vise grips also- they're awesome. Tim Quote
Dirty Rockstar Posted October 22, 2005 Report Posted October 22, 2005 Ya know.. You could have tried some good ol JB80 THat stuff would have really helped you to get that nut off.. BUt hey, who cares, its done, right? Good job.. BTW, Im with John.. Quote
cutlsp Posted October 23, 2005 Report Posted October 23, 2005 glad to hear you got your nut off U R funny :alcoholic: Quote
cutlass1991 Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Posted October 23, 2005 Well, the car has been running good for the last couple days. I think it is safe to say that my car doesn't leak anything again. I replaced the stock pulley with an aftermarket replacement pulley. One problem I ran into was pushing the pulley back onto the pump. It didn't have a lip on the inside that stops you from pushing it on too far, so I thought I might have put it on a couple millimeters too far. I went to pull it out a little and found that the pulley puller doesn't fit onto it. Hopefully I'll never have to replace this part again. Also, the pulley looks like it woubles really slightly while running. Do you think this is normal? I asked the guy at Advance when I returned the core and he said it was normal, but I didn't really trust him because his name was "Obie". Check out the video http://www.pitt.edu/~dja9/w-body/PowerSteering.wmv(3.21MB) and see if you can tell what I'm talking about. Quote
GP1138 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Posted October 23, 2005 I asked the guy at Advance when I returned the core and he said it was normal, but I didn't really trust him because his name was "Obie". QuoteSigged. Quote
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