What about cutting down a spark plug socket, if you can find one in the right size?  Most have six flats on the drive end, in addition to the four-sided recess for a ratchet or breaker bar.  If you could cut this socket short enough to fit into the available space you could turn it with an open end wrench or Crescent or a ViseGrip.  Good luck!
Stephen 

    On Sunday, December 6, 2015 6:17 PM, Richard Smith <richard_smith@GNWC.CA> wrote:
 

 At the risk of marring a socket, what about vice grips on the outside?

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 3:14 PM -0800, "Larry Alofs" <lalofs@GMAIL.COM<mailto:lalofs@GMAIL.COM>> wrote:

John,
  Some times you have to make a "special tool".  If you were to shorten
the deep socket by cutting some of it off, would it then be usable?  I
don't think I had to go to such lengths when I did this job, but it was a
long time ago.  It seems to me that I used a standard depth socket, but did
not put it all the way onto the sensor.  Then by putting the rachet only
part way into the socket, everything just barely worked.
  Cutting a socket, of course is not easy.  Using a dremel takes a long
time and many disks.  A larger tool with abrasive disk is faster, but you
want to go slow to avoid heating the socket too much and softening the
steel.  I recall cutting down a socket to get the crank pulley bolt off a
SAAB 900.  Its engine is in there backwards with the crank pulley tight
against the firewall.  What fun.

Larry A.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:03 PM, John Rodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm still struggling with this. Coolant pump pulley has been removed. Deep
> well socket to long, wom't fit in the space availabe;  standard socket to
> short , the blade/male connector of the switch is to long, can't seat the
> drive of the rachet.
>
> Whats the secret for removal?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>