Your videos are very easy to follow. Bought myself a 1985 C4 beater last week and have been using your vids as reference material during restoration and modification, cheers. I went with the FlowKooler pump, affordable but very good quality with aluminum impeller. Quite a big job but saves so much money doing it yourself
You're missing your air pump silencer. I thought my water pump was bad but the silencer fell off and was grinding on the crank pulley. Sounded similar to yours. You might want to look for that piece sitting near the crank pulley.
Just get the car running up to temperature with radiator cap off. When the thermostat valve opens , it will de air itself with radiator cap off, just watch the bubbles come up to the radiator cap inlet. When it stops bubbling, its done. Top up with coolant, and check your overflow/ reserve tank has correct amount of extra coolant for when radiator expands and contracts through heating and cooling.
Normally for most cars you wouldn't. But these C4 Corvettes are a pain in the rear to work on because the engineers crammed everything in there. So I wouldn't be surprised if he needed to remove a lot of other parts or loosen them to gain access. I have an 86 convertible and I have many times had to remove other components just to gain access to something. Just to remove the valve covers for example, I was shy like a few millimeters of wiggle room so I had to undo a lot of other stuff in order to get it out. That was just the drivers side. The passenger side involved even more removal of suff.
Your videos are very easy to follow.
Bought myself a 1985 C4 beater last week and have been using your vids as reference material during restoration and modification, cheers.
I went with the FlowKooler pump, affordable but very good quality with aluminum impeller.
Quite a big job but saves so much money doing it yourself
That is awesome. It’s crazy how much you can save doing stuff yourself
Great video. Just did this job and was going to do a video but yours covers it. Cheers, nice work!
I struggled to remove the t45 bolt below the ac pump and omg I’ve never been more mad than that
hard fought battle 😢😢
Well done. Thank you!!
Nice instructional video, very well done thank you..
Super helpful. Thank you
Helped me replace the one on my 1985. Thanks!
Great car
Good job! Im looking at an 88 w same issue. Cheers.P
I have a 86. great film! thx!
Great video. Thanks for sharing. c2
You're missing your air pump silencer. I thought my water pump was bad but the silencer fell off and was grinding on the crank pulley. Sounded similar to yours. You might want to look for that piece sitting near the crank pulley.
that definitely did not look easy.
Waiting on my parts for my radiator/water pump replacement...can't wait to damn near kill myself trying to take stuff apart
@@chasewatkins5547Hope you had an ice chest full of the strong stuff. This weekend I get to run the gauntlet with my L98
@@chasewatkins5547lol my water pump and radiator come in today im about to do it when im off work
I see you did the frisbee delete on the water pump pulley, did you reuse the 4 OEM bolts for the pulley? And if so did it require washers of any sort?
Why don't you show putting the water pump back in ? On my 95 C4 the pulley on the air pump is in the way of removal and the install ?
Thank you
very helpful, however how did you stop the flow of fuel?
About to do this on my 84 corvette...not ready for the chaos. How long did it take you?
It did not take me very long. But I have done quite a lot of them. Just take your time and it will go quite smooth
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hey, what were the torque specs for the pump? "wing-it" ftlbs or what, haha. nice video all around.
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LOL tight but not too tight👍 thank you
How do you get your air out of the engine cooler?
Just get the car running up to temperature with radiator cap off.
When the thermostat valve opens , it will de air itself with radiator cap off, just watch the bubbles come up to the radiator cap inlet. When it stops bubbling, its done.
Top up with coolant, and check your overflow/ reserve tank has correct amount of extra coolant for when radiator expands and contracts through heating and cooling.
I don't think you had to take off half of the stuff you took off.
Normally for most cars you wouldn't. But these C4 Corvettes are a pain in the rear to work on because the engineers crammed everything in there. So I wouldn't be surprised if he needed to remove a lot of other parts or loosen them to gain access. I have an 86 convertible and I have many times had to remove other components just to gain access to something. Just to remove the valve covers for example, I was shy like a few millimeters of wiggle room so I had to undo a lot of other stuff in order to get it out. That was just the drivers side. The passenger side involved even more removal of suff.
@@bubbalo3388 Ya figured all of that out, 4 months ago.