Re: Hirsch <Catenary@domain.elided>

["Dean W. Cains" <alfisto74@domain.elided>]

Hi Rich:

You, with several others, have convinced me to remove the pump by working 
from the top.  The more I think about it, the more that method makes 
sense.  Fred D. is in the other "do it by the factory method" camp, and 
maybe that alone is reason enough to do it from the top.  Not that I don't 
like Fred, because I do, it's just that the factory method is sometimes the 
most trouble.  I'll find out this weekend.  Thanks again.

Regards,

Dean


At 10:02 AM 10/9/2001 -0400, you wrote:

>IME the easiest way to remove the injection pump is to remove the six
>10mm nuts and leave the lower filter holding portion on the engine block.
>I would NOT try to remove the pump by removing the four lower, larger nuts.
>
>To ease removing the 10mm nuts I use a 10mm 6-point 1/4-inch drive
>socket and two 6-inch 1/4-inch drive extensions. In removing the
>six nuts, I hold a magnet near the socket to pick up the nuts and
>washers before they fall into the abyss. To reinstall the nuts on
>the studs, I preload a nut into the 10mm socket and hold the nut in
>place with a fragment of masking tape. My 10mm socket is fairly
>deep so I load it up with two 10mm nuts so the nut that gets screwed
>onto the stud is slightly emerging from the edge of the 10mm socket.
>This makes starting a nut easier.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Rich Hirsch
>St Louis MO
>
>------------------------------

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