OK, I'm confused now. After reading Satish's post regarding removal of the vibration damper, I had to check the manual. Sure enough it calls for removal of same BUT the picture accompanying the verbage shows the damper in place with the notch aligned at the lower bolt. Mixed signals.
Guess I'll have to wait for a water pump to go south to find out for sure if it can be done easily without removing the damper. Perhaps it requires a wobbler to get the proper angle of attack.
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