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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 07:36 PM
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I am pulling the heads off the car and I am having some trouble getting to the lowest bolt of the powersteering bracket. Any ideas? I am trying not to have to pull the water pump.
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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 09:47 PM
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You can't actually get it off, you need to just loosen it and sort of take the bracket out with it. There may be pics on www.ls1howto.com under H/C swap.
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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 10:30 PM
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It's worth the trouble to remove the water pump... It will give you much more access to this bolt. I will also help if you remove the P/S reservoir as well... Unless you remove the P/S pulley (not recommended) the bolt will come out with the bracket as mentioned above.
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Old Sep 15, 2005 | 10:57 PM
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the p/s pulley will typically crack when rem'd, it's slow w/ the wrench, but beats replacing the pulley
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Old Sep 23, 2005 | 12:14 AM
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I took one of my spare 15mm wrenches and cut the head down so I could fit in in there without removing the water pump, thanks everybody.
Charles
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