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@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 I just saw your answer, it's basically what I did and it worked. I used a piece of wood and laid it on top of the water pump pulley and hit it with a hammer. Until then I was avoiding hitting the pulley afraid that breaking it would make it harder to remove the water pump
Think about a guy that is tired, last 2 days I worked 12h shifts, doing both my regular job and using every piece of free time to work on the car
But I managed to reassembly everything today before the shift was over, have to add the cooling additive (only distilled water on the system) and ensure there are no bubbles left inside
First time I turned on the engine I almost had a heart attack. I was so nervous because I knew I could blow up my engine head if I screwed up something, and when I turned it on it started but suddenly made a scratchy metal sound and I turned it off immediately. Turns out a bolt from the timing belt cover was slightly touching the harmonic damper. I had to remove it and remount it like 10 freaking times, and I had to lock the flywheel each one of them
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