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I think I still have an EA82T head stashed somewhere that has a broken and corroded bolt stuck in it - inlet manifold bolt - from 2006 !

two scenarios - either the shank of the bolt is fused to the intake manifold or the threads in the head are stuck. With first possibility, can you drill through the side of the intake manifold up high, in order to get some spray lube straw into the corrosion cavity ? I find when fitting shaved heads, I need to enlarge holes in manifold to make up for shaved amount - gives greater cavity, less chance for corrosion. Or tape up bolts in teflon tape. Threads get the copper grease. Shame the last person in yours not have copper grease.

here is one week of waiting, over and done with

i first ask what were you doing to burn out a FL in the first place, because it seems something may have fused together across a circuit or a switch somewhere. Does your battery have a drain on it overnight and go flat on you ? And just what did you do to repair/replace the burnt out FL ?

shoot me if I am wrong, but I swear i saw a listing for a water pump with a deck height greater than 110mm and I think it was not a rounding of 5 , so 114mm ?? Going in to rock to have a bit of a look, out of curiosity

interesting to see how the alternator pulley lines up, or doesn't.

well, that is some relief for you, to know you have correct hub height. One less thing to have on your list. I did not think it is possible to fit the crank pulley belt drive cog on the wrong way.

read my entries on "water pump has me confused" post, above/below

I have used a press in the past to alter between 105 and 110, vice versa, but no longer have such a big press, could not do the job. Besides, like me, you did not want to do an R & R .....

Hey, I also got caught on the distance between flange and body when I looked and compared by eye. The body of the castings differ between brands. I was just looking for a greater distance between flange to body when inspecting new, saw it was greater than my other wrong pump ( Ihave 105mm in stock, so did not need more with a wait from USA !!. How easy was it just to measure the flipping thing for correctness ? Too easy, yet I did it by eye. An illusion due to different casting dimensions. So, if you can make a disc 57mm dia, 5mm thick, measure up about 16mm hole in centre, about 6.5mm holes for studs, slip it in, you will be sorted. At this stage, I can see you are looking too far outside the box

Do you remember what I wrote somewhere in one of the other water pump posts? Same poo happened to me, with my Rock order, an advertised imperial measurement listing, converts roughly to metric 110mm, came as an -s on the part number, turned out to be the 105mm variety. I got in before the return date and got a 99% refund from them. I got the same uhuh? moment when my pulleys "lined" up just the same as your photos. Down under, we have metal supply shops with round discs for sale, to be used for whatever - plugging ends of pipes, weld in, weld on style etc. 5mm thick flat steel, punched out at 57mm The 57mm fits perfectly inside the water pump pulley of the V belt style, pressed steel pulley. I set about marking out the centre hole and four holes for the mounting bolts/studs. Job done, a 5mm spacer makes a 105mm pump into a 110mm deck height pump. I bet you are outside your return date, due to your ill health before. The one thing that irked me more than having to fix someones muck-up was the diameter of the shaft of the new Dayco pump differed from that of the old brand unknown pump ( still about - I could go out and look) When I made my spacer, I measured the old pump shaft diameter assuming it would be the same as the new. It was not. New pump shaft dia was a bit less, and so a bit sloppy on the pulleys hole and the hole in my spacer. The set up I had, did not really have enough length on new pump shaft outside the flange to get 5mm spacer and 2mm of pulley to actually sit nice on the shaft ...

Well, I guess your part now is to record for posterity, and those who have tools and skill to see waves of any kind, record what you know to be good, and bad.

Yeah, I think we were much the same - if a number was the 17 character length, we call them VIN's , other forms - body number (even if the had letters in them )

were the test procedures you used in the factory manual ?