Thread: "P" gasket

And if it isnt leaking dont touch it, mine has been replaced prior to my ownership, 8 years and 142K ago, but on 2nd water pump.

Spel
Thanks for the pointers. I am considering reseating the serpentine belt to get some tension on the pulley. Either that or getting a big oil filter wrench to hold it still.
Your idea to hold one pulley bolt with a spanner while attacking another is also worth trying, with the bolts recessed slightly inside the pulley I might "sacrifice" a size ten spanner to get the best purchase and leverage.
If you say it can be done I'll persevere, reassured that I'm not on a fruitless mission.
Cheers
Jason

Mike and Spel
Just realised, with the water pump pulley shaft sheered off, I haven't got enough pulleys left on the car to tension the serpentine belt enough to stop the PS pulley from turning.
Spanner or oil filter spanner it is!
Cheers
Jason

You can even hold the pulley tight enough using one of those seatbelt type oil filter tools , & they don't damage the pulley

Try this. Holding one bolt with a 10mm offset spanner, you can loosen the other two bolts. Remove one of those completely and coat threads with anti seize, then loosely tighten this one back up with a flat washer underneath it. Then using the holding 10mm spanner on this anti seize coated bolt, undo the last bolt. The re-tightened anti seize coated bolt should the undo a lot easier with minimal force using a strap or sometimes by even by hand.

Or, after some extra thought. Maybe undo the first two bolts and replace with longer ones, then brace across those to undo the last one.

Mike, thanks for the correction - I meant undo the PS bracket not the PS itself from the bracket.

Jason,
It is a pain when the shaft shears off. As Spel says the best way will be to lock the power steering pulley with spanners to undo the bolts or try the oil filter spanner if it is one of those rubber strapped ones. I had a bit of movement when I went to loosen mine still even with the serpentine belt (which wasn't in good condition I discovered) providing the friction force. So I ended up using the open end of a shifter with the open end on a pulley bolt (the shifter was about 12 inches and the open end was opened about 2x the bolt size) and the shaft of the shifter was resting on the rim of the pulley. Then I undid another pulley bolt whilst the shifter was in place providing an opposite force.

Spel, I like the idea of the two longer bolts.

regards,
Mike