How to Install a Water Pump Pulley

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to grab the pieces necessary to put on the water pump pulley. It comes with four bolts in the kit. You'll see on a serpentine belt set up that the different pulleys, some have teeth, some don't. A serpentine belt runs a shiny side on some pulleys, tooth side on some pulleys. The pulleys that require a lot of pressure, like power steering and air conditioning compressor, they'll run with the tooth side because it has a lot more purchase that way. A water pump doesn't take a lot to spin so they run it on the shiny side there. There is is bolted up and he's just using a screw driver to hold the pulley still while he tightens up the last little bit of it. You just stick a screwdriver against the bolts in the center pin of the water pump."