MartinT

I'm trying to remove the power steering pump, to replace it with one I've just rebuilt.
Got most of the way through the removal, but the last bolt is hanging me up.


It's the bolt thats a pin at one end and threaded at the other. Whats the key to removing it? I have the nut off, and either trying to keep the pin in place or slide it with pump, doesn't give me enough room. I have taken the cylinder spacer out, but still not enough wiggle room.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

Martin

PorscheDoc

And you took the bolt out of the backside as well?

Serge944

There is one bolt, and one nut. You pull the bolt out and the ~1 inch spacer that it goes through. Then you undo the nut towards the front of the car. The stud is built into the pump...you pull it back and out.

35thSLP

Serge944 said it, once you remove the spacer and have the nut off of the front you should be able to slide the pump towards the rear of the car and it will drop out.

MartinT

Thanks,
I'll take another look at it tonight...

Thanks againg

Lawn Gnome

I had to remove the pulley off the front of the pump to get mine out. I had the same trouble as it sounds like you are having and once I took that pulley off the pump slid right out.

MartinT

I'm still having problems, removing the pump. The spacer at the rear is out, but the amount I can move the pump backwards is less than the size of the bolt/pin. Even splitting the pump case I couldn't get it off.

Question: The front mounting, seems to have a groove in it, making it a C shape. This then seems to have a cylinderical spacer which the bolt/pin goes through. Should I be able to remove the spacer at the front that the bolt/pin goes through.

MartinT

Bump!

944_S_TYPE

To simpilify.
1)Take off belt and pulley.
2)remove bolt and bushing at rear of pump
3)remove nut off the front of the pump, Leave the stud in the pump, (It help holds the pump together)
4)remove the bushing from the front of the pump.
5)wiggle and pry the pump straight down.
6)unhook lines as required. Make sure you have new crush washers.

MartinT

Thanks,
So I do need to remove the bushing (cylindrical spacer I was talking about above). I take it that the best way is to tap it forward.

Martin T

2001f4s

So I thought I would add my 2 cents in regards to the front bushing removal. I just struggled with it as well. Look at the back of the front bushing from the passenger side of the car. You will see a cutout that exposes about 30 degrees of the bushing and the back of the bushing. From there you can insert a screwdriver against the back of the bushing and carefully pound it forward. Than the whole pump will come out. Once you see if out, it all makes sense. I didn't have issue with the "saw dust" mount, thank goodness, but definitely worth being careful to avoid further issues.

tempest411

He finally got that pump off in the spring of 2013...

gothatway

Well he did better than me then. We're talking about the bush on the threaded stud at the right of this image, correct ? Seems impossible to get a swing with a hammer onto any sort of drift to shift it. I don't like the idea of applying heat in such an area, but that might well be the next step. I only want to move the pump out of the way so I can get to the oil cooler !

Zirconocene

Can you swing the pump a little on that axis (the one in the rear, as the picture is oriented)?

From what I remember, you need to remove the bolt on the other side. I don't believe that they're actually connected, even if it looks like they are, so if you're expecting that threaded, visible bit of bolt to move, I think you're going to be out of luck, so long as that bolt on the other side is still attached. I'm going from memory but, if I remember correctly, nothing made sense until I removed that rear bolt and was able to slide the pump around a little bit, at which point it sort of pops out of the bracket.

I hope that makes sense, and that I'm remembering correctly.

Good luck

gothatway

Thanks for the response. I have taken the bolt out from the rear (left of the picture); it was in the sleeve which you can see sticking out from the housing. I did find a YouTube video of a guy trying to get it out, and he was eventually able to drift the bush on the right off the thread, after which the pump will lift out. But I think the bush in mine is seized in the housing.