Glue on the waterpump seal is not good. Normally, I dont recommend glue on
any VW engine (with the exception of areas that need glue according to
physics and reality). Glue on a rubber seal or gasket does nothing but
lubricate the seal/gasket making it more prone to "walking". This will lead
to premature failure of the original sealing agent. Check your Bentley;
there are very few mistakes (none of which apply to glue).

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.367.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: Dan Erlandson <danoer1@ECLIPSE.NET>
>Reply-To: Dan Erlandson <danoer1@ECLIPSE.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: head repair and water pump
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:38:37 -0400
>
>on 6/19/03 1:48 AM, Joel Walker at jwalker17@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> >
> >> come at last to my question of the day...  How the heck do you
> > get the water
> >> pump out of this thing???  Those bottom two hex bolts that hold
> > the pipe to
> >> the passenger side of the engine are buried deep and the @#$*&
> > crankshaft
> >> pulley is in the way... You mean I have to disassemble the
> > pulley?
> >
> > nope. but you'll need an L-shaped allen wrench, of proper size,
> > with the short leg shortened by 1/2 inch.
> > otherwise, as you back out the rightmost bolt on the pump, the
> > wrench hits the crankshaft pulley ... as you seem to have already
> > found out. :)
> >
> > it can also help to remove the three bolts on the water pump
> > pulley and get it out of the way ... loop the belt around the
> > pulley and pull on the belt to tension the pulley so you can turn
> > the bolts.
> >
> > you'll also need to loosen/remove the clamp on that hose/pipe
> > that goes from the pump to behind the crankshaft pulley
> > ....there's a clamp a the pump, and another one on the right side
> > of the pulley. loosening both clamps helps a lot ... you can
> > shift the pipe/hose to the right and get the pump out easier.
> >
> > don't forget to clean, clean, clean, the engine surface where the
> > pump is going ... and use a NEW pump gasket!!
> >
> > good luck!
> > joel
> >
> >
>Thanks Joel... Got the pump out today without removing the crankshaft
>pulley, YEAH.  So a little bit of permatex in the groove with the O rings
>on
>the water pump??
>
>
>--
>Dan Erlandson
>Flemington, NJ
> > danoer1@eclipse.net
>91 VW Vanagon GL 170,000 mi
>99 VW Passat 107,000 mi

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