[GH85Carrera]

It is 74 with 77% humidity outside and 72 and dry air in the garage. I had to stop for my lunch break and eat some of the bosses leftovers.

To get to the water pump the AC compressor has to be removed from position. It stays connected, just gotta move it out of the way to get to the bolts for power steering pump that is bolted to the water pump. Of course the alternator and all the brackets for it have to be removed completely.

One of the bolts on the power steering pump is hidden on the bottom so it is really handy to have a lift to get the car up and down to get to the 7,000 bolts that hold everything on. Well OK, my mom told me a million time not to exaggerate, it is lots of bolts. Some are 14, some are 15 a few 17s and some are friking 16 MM! Of course some are 7/16th and some are 5/8ths. A total mix of metric and SAE on the Elky. It was back in the 80s that most of the car is metric, but the engine is SAE, except for some of the accessories.

When I got the brackets off for the power steering pump I saw it was leaking more than I could accept. So I just got a replacement PS pump, and new hoses. It requires a pulley remover and installer special tool to do the pulley for the PS pump. I just happen to have them since I have BTDT before. The connection for the top of the power steering rack to the hose to the pump requires a 16MM Crow foot line wrench. Not something one finds in a normal tool collection. I chased down a Snap on truck and bout it years ago. Without that 16MM crowfoot line wrench you can't tighten up the high pressure line.

Just things that wear out more than once after 361,000 miles. Back to slaving for the man!