Glad you found Carpokes John. Thanks for joining!jatwood123 wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:53 pm First thing, a big THANKS goes to the CarPokes team and all that contribute to it! Especially to the person who posted the 20-page, picture intensive PDF on the process of pulling an '86 dashboard, which I ended up using last winter and it worked perfectly!
Now for my question: I'm replacing my water pump (& all belts) and I've read that for early '86s (& before, I guess), there's some adaptations needed to use the 'new' water pump. I'm looking at a Geba one and it looks like I need to also get a larger 46mm roller and a guard rail with associated locknuts. There's also a difference in thermostat spacing. Soooo, can anyone confirm the above and/or provide me tips on the replacement job?
Thanks much, John
Wow, that's incredible. Please take and post pictures of all the original parts! I could draw up a CAD model of the flywheel lock, no problem, but you would need mighty strong plastic for it to hold up when you torque the front bolt to 155 ft lbs. Maybe one of the carbon fiber nylons would be strong enough, but I'm not even sure about that. On the other hand, if you just want it to keep the motor from moving around as you do the belts, I'm sure a 3D printed part would do fine for that. Let me know if you want me to draw one up.jatwood123 wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:03 am Tom, Thanks for the info. Understanding that the upgraded parts have been out for a while, I'm embarrassed to say that I bought my 951 in '88 (and it's been sitting for a long time, really embarrassed about that!), and while it has about 70K mi., I don't believe the water pump has been replaced. As such, I'm going to assume I've got to get the extra parts. BTW, thanks for the technical info. I already looked at Tech Bulletin #1 but hadn't seen the other info.
As for the tensioning tool, I did download the Carpokes 3D printed tensioning tool file and a friend of my sons is going to make us one. So, another big THANKS for that!
Now for another 'ask', do you or anyone on this have a 3D print file for a flywheel lock? That would be very helpful!
Thanks much, John
Will do. I'll model it after my factory version.jatwood123 wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 10:32 am Will take pix of original parts and post on this thread in couple weeks when new pump comes in and is being installed.
Next up after that is replacing the clutch which is frozen. I'll likely start another thread asking (dumb) questions on that difficult job!
As for the flywheel lock, the guy printing the tensioning tool is using onyx plastic, a microcarbon fiber filled nylon (or so I'm told), so should be strong enough. Anyway, I'm mainly going to use it to keep the motor from moving around as I change all the belts. If you can draw one up, that would be a huge help!
(Now, I've got a metal one on order!). I'm checking to see what printer it was printed on and what was the material and will pass that along later. [BTW, Pix are in reverse order]