The motor mount/torque whatever they are calling it, is preventing the removal of the water-pump pulley. The four bolts are out of it and it is loose and all but the close proximity of that motor mount prevent it from being totally removed. Also, getting to the two bolts that one is supposed to be able to remove through access holes in said mount is proving problematic as they are not centered in those holes sufficiently to even get a thin-walled socket on them.
There is supposed to be some support bracket available to support the motor while removing that bracket. But I have been unable to find any information about said support bracket: whether it supports from below with a jack or from above with an engine hoist lifting from above. I have tried both approaches without said bracket: with a 2X10 below oil pan and using a chain from the hoist to the loops there for removing the engine entirely (which I am not trying to do!).
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Thursday, July 5th, 2018 AT 12:22 PM