205 pugi DTi water pump...

[Richie]

What a fooking pain in the rear end it is to replace this item. As it's driven off the timing belt.
1. disconnect battery
2. remover airfilter housing
3. remove starter motor
4. remove r/h/ front wheel
5. time engine to TDC.
6. place lock pin (8mm Drill bit cut in half..) in flywheel, thats why the starter motor is removed to gain acces to the hole...stupid design.
7. lock up FIP and CAM shaft with 8mm bolts.
8. remove alternator belt.
9. remove alternator drive pully.
10. mark up timing belt with spots of tipex ( not in the manual that tip)
11. slacken off timing belt adjuster.
12. drain coolant from bottom hose to water pump.
13. remove 5x bolts holding the water pump to the engine block.
14. have a Brew.... warm up hands as it's f-in freezing.
15. remove water pump...
16. simply do the list in reverse order...
17. before starting the engine, rotate engine by hand via the crankshaft pully 3 times so you know I free and no valves will hit the pistons...

and that was just after I had to get the missus's Car (Volvo V40) through the MOT this morning...
had to strip down the handbrake and reset the piston on both callipers on that before I could start on mine.

Note to Self... always use axle stands as the car very nearly fell off the jack......
I bloody hate cages.

I'm now enjoying a wee dram as my day has finished and the kids have gone horse riding with the missus... peace and quiet and warmth... NICE

My one and only request when we moved house was for a garage. Too many stolen bikes and frostbite when that 10 minute job took 3 hours.
I remember changing the spark plugs on my girlfriends car and stripping a thread. So then the head had to come off to be helicoiled then re-fitted. All this with hands like blocks of ice and water running down the back of my neck. Ah, those happy outdoor days.

[fizzwheel]

And there was me feeling all manly because I did up the bolt on the wiper arm of my fester today and now the wipers work again..