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I can definitely, positively assure anyone that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get off a water pump on a 560SL without removing the balancer. The notches will entice you (perhaps what they were designed for...). Even if you DO (as I did) manage to get the bottom bolt threads out of the water pump, you will never be able to actually remove it far enough to remove the pump.
This thread is mentions "sedan" 560's; could anyone verify for me that an '86 560SL has a harmonic balancer that comes off as mentioned above (without removing the center bolt). I've liquid wrenched the heck out of the inside hub of the balancer and am going to allow it to sit overnight. How much rapping (with a hard plastic mallet) should it take to come off? A lot? Any advice on how to pull / knock it off (hopefully, without using the radiator as a backstop). Thanks in advance.
PS: a strap wrench saved me on this. Wife is out of town, and I wanted to do major work. Used a strap wrench to hold the pulley, didn't have to hold two wrenches (one on the center bolt, one on the pulley bolt) at the same time. I tried this and it was impossible for me to do alone.
Last edited by Strife; 04-09-2005 at 09:03 PM.
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