My power steering pump is going south. So I'm trying to remove it. It turns out I'm going to have to remove the radiator to get the pump off. The radiator I just replaced last month. Damn. A stud is part of the mount for the PS pump. So I thought I would take the stud out and the pump would come right out. Nooo, The stud is bigger on the end that screws into the head and that is behind the mount for all the accessories. The mount hole is the size of the small part of the stud so the stud won't come out. This must have to do with the heads being the same for right or left. Air injection on one side, mount hole on the other.

Chevy did an interesting thing with power steering pumps on the V6. You have to remove the pulley to get at the mounting bolts. Sometimes the pulley is so tight that you can not pull it off, it bends...

I have a conspiracy theory that explains all of this.

Greg

I did get it off without removing the radiator. Removed the mount for the air con and PS pump. Now if I can only get the pulley off the PS pump. Tried heat and impact. nuclear is next.

There's a special puller/tool to remove the pulley. Autozone will loan it to you for free. I've never seen anyone get the pulley off without the tool without damaging the pulley.
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82 242 6.2L coming...; '10 Cayman S; '15 Honda Fit

Yea I hear ya. I couldn't get the center hex screw to budge from the shaft. I tried heat and PB blaster. I found a billet pulley for 45 bucks so I decided to save myself some stress and buy it. Then I found my slow leak, The hose connection at the pump, so I need a new high pressure hose. There is a shop that makes custom hoses in town so I'll try them Monday.

You don't do anything at all with center hex to remove or install the pulley -- it's a press fit. You'll need the same special tool with an aftermarket pulley. It literally takes 90 seconds with the proper tool.
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82 242 6.2L coming...; '10 Cayman S; '15 Honda Fit

That's interesting. What's the dang thing there for? Just for confusion?

It's used to assemble the pump -- just nothing to do with the pulley. Get the free tool from Autozone....
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82 242 6.2L coming...; '10 Cayman S; '15 Honda Fit

Too late for the tool. I cut it off. your 6.2 liter project sounds cool. Whats the engine from? My wife loves the 5.0 but, you know, that tech is getting long in tooth now. Most 6 cylinders have more power now and even some 4's.
The AOD auto doesn't help either. It still empresses people though. Nothing like the V8 sound.

Never mind I just saw your earlier post. That led me to look at the 1800es V8 on grassroots. I have an ES and was considering a swap. I want to do a 94 b230FT though.

430HP/424 lb-ft LS3 all aluminum. Buying a new one --- don't want someone else's problems. The 5.0L's work pretty good - with mild mods, 300HP is easy, but more importantly - 300-350 lb-ft of torque starting relatively low on the tach. That's what makes them fun. Even though you have 6's and turbo 4's with 250-300HP, they don't produce torque like the old V8's do. I'm much less interested in a big peak HP number and much more interested in about 300 lb-ft of torque starting at idle and going up from there.

The GRM 5.0L ES is really more like a 5.0L Miata swap - and then hang an ES body over the Miata floor pan/suspension. Cool -- but not much is transferable to someone wanting to put a V8 in the ES floorpan.
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82 242 6.2L coming...; '10 Cayman S; '15 Honda Fit

yea torque is great. Id love to shoehorn a V8 in the ES, but there would be too much cutting involved.