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Originally Posted by chevale  I straggle myself for hours, trying the method described in the repair manual and just ended up breaking the brackets on the water pump.  Then I found this video https://youtu.be/BTs5ZN0fTrk and the advice worked like a charm! Water pump was out in a 3 minutes. |
Same thing happened to me. Mine appeared to be the original and lasted 214k miles so it was adhered in there pretty good. Took me 3 days to remove it. Wound up busting it in half. Once the front half came out I had to use a wire brush and 3m pad to remove the build up so the rest could slide out. The plastic empeller literally crumpled on its way out.