andrewmacc
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- Surrey, BC, Canada
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I feel like a grade A moron for this. It's one of those moments that you have an easy job in front of you, and then you make mistake. And then you try to rectify that mistakes and just end up making more mistakes. Like a train wreck.
I went to a junkyard, took a water pump (and some other stuff) out of a junked XJ. So, I'm taking off the serpentine belt, and (don't ask), I got a little careless and managed to take off a good two inches of the lip of the stupid plastic power steering pulley. I have no idea how I managed that. Plus, that's the least of my worries.
I grab a p/s pulley puller/installer, and I thread in the installer just to see which one I need (it came with five different bolts) for later. Lo and behold, I threaded it too tight, and now it won't come off. I tighten up a vise grip onto the pulley, which is toast anyhow, and end up continually taking out chunks of it trying to get a good grip.
How in the hell do I get that bolt out? I've got nothing to grab onto, and I tried putting another vise grip on the bolt to twist it off but all I'm doing is stripping the threads off the bolt. It's utterly embarrassing, in fact I intend on keeping it a secret from my mechanically inclined friends.
(Oh, and the water pump, where the piping screws into, is also stripped, I should have noticed. Can I just rethread it and put a good whack of teflon tape on the pipe thread?)
Thanks guys. :rattle:
I feel like a grade A moron for this. It's one of those moments that you have an easy job in front of you, and then you make mistake. And then you try to rectify that mistakes and just end up making more mistakes. Like a train wreck.
I went to a junkyard, took a water pump (and some other stuff) out of a junked XJ. So, I'm taking off the serpentine belt, and (don't ask), I got a little careless and managed to take off a good two inches of the lip of the stupid plastic power steering pulley. I have no idea how I managed that. Plus, that's the least of my worries.
I grab a p/s pulley puller/installer, and I thread in the installer just to see which one I need (it came with five different bolts) for later. Lo and behold, I threaded it too tight, and now it won't come off. I tighten up a vise grip onto the pulley, which is toast anyhow, and end up continually taking out chunks of it trying to get a good grip.
How in the hell do I get that bolt out? I've got nothing to grab onto, and I tried putting another vise grip on the bolt to twist it off but all I'm doing is stripping the threads off the bolt. It's utterly embarrassing, in fact I intend on keeping it a secret from my mechanically inclined friends.
(Oh, and the water pump, where the piping screws into, is also stripped, I should have noticed. Can I just rethread it and put a good whack of teflon tape on the pipe thread?)
Thanks guys. :rattle: