Should you not freeze it rather than heat it in order to enlarge the hole?
Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A -------- Original message --------From: Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <[email protected]> Date: 2017-05-18 6:19 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected] Cc: Floyd Thursby <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT non-Mercedes repair I had to replace the power steering pump on my 96 Chebby truck. Was driving, backing out of a parking space in a shopping center, WHAM I heard/felt something then no boost. BAH. Finally got it off, undid the serpentine belt then pulled on the PSP pulley and the whole pulley and shaft come out of the thing. Shaft had sheared off inside the pump somewhere somehow. WTF? I took the pulley to a shop to press the shaft out, it was a real tight fit, there is some sort of special puller to get it off but of course no one has it. So anyway I got the new one on but now getting the pulley back on the shaft is a pain, I think maybe it might be possible to put a bolt in the shaft (there is a hole in front, I'm thinking it is threaded in there) but then there is the issue of how to keep it from turning.. I put the pulley in the toaster oven and got it up to 450 thinking it might slide over hot but no. So now I gotta figure that one out. Did I mention it took like 6 different wrenches and sizes to get the old one off? On a Benz it would be at most, what, 2 wrenches or sizes? I hate merkin vehicles... --FT On 5/18/17 6:49 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Pray for me boys, tomorrow I will attempt to replace the steering rack on our > '96 Infiniti I30. I'll be facing very tight quarters, cheap fasteners that > readily break, with poorly written instructions to guide the way. -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
