Oooooh buggrit...

[Nik da Greek]

The one and only time my brother ever did his own oil change on his bike, he didn\'t know the torque setting for the drain bolt on the sump, so he looked it up in the generic torque settings in his Haynes manual. Only trouble is, it was like a 17mm head on the bolt, so the manual said about 80 lb/ft or something outrageous. Not a good amount to put into an aluminium sump when the actual torque rating was about 12! Not only did the thread strip, the sump pan cracked, too. Ooops.
 
I only mention this cos it was extremely funny, and cos we\'ve all been there, dude!

[Draco]

You *NEED* an impact gun to get the alternator bolt off.

No other way mate.

Tim at rxmotors told me and it worked
double up the belt around that pulley and lash it to sommink it will tighten and you can then undo it. worked for me

[interloper393]

my impact gun didnt move mine at all.. dunno why cus it s removed everything else lol..

hey nik the geek.. did u just win a earthing kit on ebay??

soak it in wd40 the night before or keep soaking it until u get the tools to remove it bud ..

theres a way a guy i know removed these nuts but its not for the faint hearted :S
lock the spanner or wrachet on the nut n crank the engine :S scary crap when i saw it happen lol

[Nik da Greek]

Might have ! :Laugh
 
I needed a few extra bits of wire to fill in the gaps on the one I\'ve got and yours seemed to fit the bill. I\'m still upset I couldn\'t afford your KnightSports cat, but it would\'ve been a long drive to collect it anyway (and I\'d be risking my wife going back native on me lol, she\'s from your side of the border!)
 
Sorry for the hijack

[SiH]

Well, I\'ve decided to do it properly and try to replace the bracket - I\'ve got the PS pump off, and got the two top bolts off the AC pump, but i\'m struggling to see how to get the pump off? From looking at the FSM there\'s two or three more bolts behind it that i need to get to get the bracket off, but i can\'t for the life of me see how to get the pump off?

Any ideas anyone? I\'ve bothered Draco more than enough by PM already, so thought i\'d open it up to the masses

[interloper393]

the ac pump has 4 bolts, 2 at the bottom bud.. the front ones not too bad but the back rears a pig.. helps if you cn get someone to push the engine to the side that extra 1/2 inch.. i did it this way with a ratchet.

[SiH]

A knackers, i knew i\'d have to get under the damn thing
I\'m trying to do one job a day to get it ready for mapping before the track day - guess i\'ll do an oil change whileI\'m under there

Ring spanner or deep socket job do you reckon? There are 2 down the back for that bracket that look like spanner only jobs, so I\'m going to have to go buy a 14mm ring spanner, as sods law says i\'ve lost the 14mm and 10mm ones!

[interloper393]

i did mine from the top bud.. got a socket in there tho

[SiH]

Socket it is So 2 bolts for the pump at the bottom, pump comes off, then i cen get to the rest of the bracket bolts i guess?

I\'m off to study the FSM again
Cheers dude :wiggle

[dhracer]

You\'ve had it how long and you\'re already breaking bits :rolleyes: :Laugh

and where are the pics of it? :King

[SiH]

lol:D
Only got crappy phone pics at the mo, my drive is hardly an exciting location

Will get them up soon when it\'s back running again - I\'ve got to get it ready for mapping on the 13th, so unfortunately making her uber pretty may have to wait a while

[interloper393]

yeah im sure i used a rachet lol.. but iv got soooo many spanners, sockets ect that iv modified for the fd cus some bits are a pig to get into think im almost at the full set of cut in half rewelded spanner set :yes

[Jimjitsu]

for those bolts that are a cvnt

[SiH]

Hurrah! All sorted!
Now, to find the PS pump bolt
Anyone know what thread it is? In my immense arsenal of bolts i haven\'t got one that fits