Hey,

With the help of you guys, I was able to change the water pump of my 70 Cutlass SX and get it back to driving condition. I wanted to help anyone else that might come across this problem so I quickly made a little website with a tutorial on this. It can be found here:

http://www.mysx455.com/2010/09/tutor...70-cutlass.php

I'll also use this site as a place to keep track of all the stuff I do to my car.

 

nice, thanks - good looking engine bay too

 

Nice format - Man, I hope you helped Trovato w/ his book!

 

Nice job on the tutorial and the website. I"m about to tear into a 70 Cutlass so if you could keep these tutorials coming I will finish my car much quicker!

 

Nice writeup!

 

Nice tutorial! I'll be doing this job on my '70 SX in the next week or two since I think its timing gear (behind the water pump) is stripped (RPM readings were up on the tic-toc-tach, and it ran rougher and rougher and sputtered out along the highway, like when a fuel pump goes out.) It's been sidelined since late May but now it's the best part of convertible season in PA so i need to get it going again soon!
Terry

 

man i hope this helps me lol. about to tear into it tonight to replace the water pump which shows up tomorrow. great writeup though i would have to say. easy to understand for us newbs lol

 

and also how did the duralast water pump workout for you? i ordered the same one but from advanced auto? (only auto parts store around here that has hurst/olds in there computer system so i lean towards them cause of that)

 

So far so good! I've driven my car for about 40 miles since the exchange and haven't seen any problem.

But yea, if I could do this, anyone can and again, if you need more detail on a step, let me know. I have a lot more pictures of the process that I didn't upload.

The only part that I feel it helped to have another person was loosening the A/C compressor (the other end of the A/C belt that is not the pump) just because it did take more force and a strange angle.

Good Luck

Doing it myself saved me a good 200 bucks from what the mechanics were going to charge.

 

speaking of a/c compressor, i ordered the water pump with the ac hookup, cause my car came equipped with one originally, and was wondering if that makes a difference if the actual ac isnt there anymore?

 

I'm honestly not to sure what the difference would be, but I feel like you did the right thing getting how it is originally. Probably the bolts are in different places or something.

 

yeah i one day, especially being in texas, plan on putting that damn A/C back in the car. have no clue why it was taken out tbh. seeming it has been a texas car its whole life lol

 

I barely have enough time to work on my car, let alone put together a site like that! Good job- I used to have a '70 SX in another life many moons ago. How long have you had yours?

Chumley

 

I've had mine for about 4 months now. I love the black top on your old one. Its such a great look. I'm thinking about straying away from my originality and getting mine done black and converting the interior.

 

so a suggestion for your website, take it or leave it. i followed your steps verbatim(sp) and the part with the power steering was column and the bolt on the bottom. maybe add a picture of that one, took me a little bit to find out what you were talking about and i think i took off too many bolts lol. but other than that GOOD wording and everything on it

 

I'll dig around and see if I have any better pictures of that section. As I mentioned, the power steering part was the most difficult in my opinion just because it was tough to get to all the bolts (that and I had to borrow my neighbors wrench) Thanks for the input.

 

no problem man, thanks for the website and look forward to more, hopefully more stuff wont break though but it happens lol.