Craig - Take a look at my water pump page at

http://volksweb.relitech.com/19wpump.htm

and you should see that the water pump comes off without having to remove
the pulley.

It's tight, but you can do it.

TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://www.relitech.com/tomc
http://volksweb.relitech.com
http://checkerweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
81 Checker A-11 (Taxi)
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Oda - Personal email [SMTP:craigoda@COMMUNITYBUILDERS.INFO]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:48 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      crank pulley removal
>
> I have a 1983.5 westy with a 3 groove pulley.  As many of you know, I
> am in the process of removing my cylinder heads to resolve a problem
> with billowing white smoke from the exhaust.  I've got the passenger
> side off.  It looks like I have to remove the crank pulley to get the
> water pump off and the driver's cylinder head off.  How do I get this
> pulley off?
>
> With a 30mm socket?  How do I prevent the engine from turning when I
> turn the socket.
>
> Should I even try?  I can probably remove the metal piece that
> connects to the water pump to avoid taking off the water pump.  But
> since I'm this deep into the engine, I thought I would take off the
> pump too.
>
> -- Craig
>
> --
> Craig Oda   craigoda@communitybuilders.info
> VW Info: 1983 VW Westfalia, water-cooled, automatic