Hey there viewers and welcome back to the south main auto channel. That's a 2003 non-hemi dodge dakota! It's got the big three nine in it and needs a power steering pump. Now this was in a previous video that we did rear wheel, studs and parking brake shoes. So make sure you check that one out need to finish it up got the tires all mounted up and on it gon na do the power steering pump.

I thought i'd bring it up, so service data tells you to remove the belt, obviously and then uh take the hoses and stuff off and then pull the whole front bracket off and then take the pump out of that way. I'm just curious if we can just pull this fan shroud leave the bracket and just pull the pump off do the pulley swap and everything while it sits in there uh. This fan shroud appears to be two piece like this. Upper half will come off.

I think that's what we're gon na find out uh. It may be a waste of time, but in either case we'll learn something well look at that, so she is two-piece. It come right out of there um and then now we have lots of room so fantastic. So if we do have to pull the bracket, we can get to these bolts easier i'll, bring you around there where you can see and uh.

I think we'll be in good shape to the shape we're in here. Folks, all right take the belt off. So we're going to relieve the tension here and a tensioner you're so tense and then we'll take that off being mindful of the direction that it goes. So you can either mark it or if you find the letters on it, where it's got writing on it see which way they're going.

You know this one we can read without you know being backwards around your head, so we know which way it goes back on. Some people say it doesn't matter i've, i'm still up in the air. I noticed that if i put them back on in the direction i took them off, they typically don't have a squeak or any issues. So we're going to get it right out of the way, possibly oh and if you don't know how it goes back on, draw a little picture before you take it apart, um too late now fella, oh, we can look up on service data anyways and typically they Only fit like 15 different ways, so eventually you'll get it.

So what i'd like to do now? Let's see if we can't get the power steering pulley off right here, find the right adapter here, flip it around. So the puller here has two sides to it: got that opening on that side which i've ground down. I got this opening, which is slightly larger and difficult with the camera. I won't lie.

So if i look off fumbly it's because typically i try to set you guys up where you can see and puts me in an awkward position, you're making it awkward people so stick that little guy in there you'll see it once it's all together here. Oh man, we're going to do. We have hand tools on this one it looks like, and then we just do this all the way to the end. So, just like that this part is a little tricky.

We got to try to loosen up the power steering line here. I think it's 18 from the looks of it see if we can't get her. Oh look at that. I'm all saying.

Oh, this is tricky. You're gon na be fighting this one. She cracks right loose. Let's see here, oh actually, it's quite loose uh before i yanked it out.

Let me go get a bucket all right buckets in place, because it's probably gon na pp a little here. There should be an o-ring on that fitting too um. So it probably comes with a new one. No, it's still stuck to it, but just in case it doesn't come with a new one, make sure you don't lose that it's uh.

I think they call it a bell flare and then we need to get this line. Undone here we get a pair of pliers well that popped right off. Look at that today's your lucky day fella, so i've got both these kind of this ppn down in a bucket uh. I don't think there's any bracket on the back of these, like on the chevrolet's uh she just bolted on on the front.

We should be able to unbolt it and hopefully have enough room, so it doesn't hit the exhaust manifold here because i don't want to pull the bracket because i don't want to take the water pipe out of the water pump best angle. I could give you there folks we're going to come in and with the pulley off. There's four bolts that hold this whole mess together, see we can just zippy zap them out we'll get the bottom ones. First, we need to just have to talk to a customer.

I'm missing my gloves: i'm not missing them. Like you know, like oh my gosh, i really miss those like that's just that's. Why they're off from one scene to the next, because you guys think it's all just fluid and everything goes together. What project this could be? Um three days, you won't even know the difference, you probably would there we go.

I guess all i'm saying is. I don't even know what i'm saying at this point. What i'm saying is, i hope this comes out which it should frick hole. I just wan na.

I wan na stick my middle finger up at it. Oh you sucker! Well, i tell you what um not a big deal, not a big deal, everybody just calm down. We need to loosen up the bracket here so, like i say, i don't want to pull this water pipe out. Yeah we got to wrench the one bolt the problem.

Is they got it all siliconed up? So you know darn tooting well now they're having a problem with that pipe ceiling, and i don't want to be the last guy to touch. I guess i should have looked behind the bracket that holds the upper radiator hose on because it looks like it's a stuck, but it's a double. It's a double stud. It's a double-headed stutter! You know what i'm saying.

So it looks like that. This is the only nut and it's not you'll, see in a minute. Of course, you can't see crap where you're at but i'll show you so there's. You know one of the nuts there's both these nuts.

Those are both of the ones that held on the bracket and the ground wire, so we're gon na unhook the ground wire, we're gon na unhook this bracket, which they have zip tied here, which i don't know why? Because it doesn't appear to be broken, so we're gon na take we're gon na remove the double zip tie, classic move right there with zip tie action. We're gon na have to get this bracket up and out of the way so there's the bracket that we just took off and the reason this bracket's not loose is because there's more bolts, so i didn't look back there, so this is completely all this is entirely My fault, i guess it's what i'm getting at everything everything in life still, though, with the water tube in the way. At this point, i might better just drain the antifreeze out of it, or at least let it spill onto the floor, one or the other. Ah, mother lover: that's enough! Antoine! Let's see if we get on the bottom one here, baby, we'll just take that one all the way out: gosh dang it back in the beginning.

I thought that was with studs, no sir, no sir, i better just freaking. Take it off at this point huh. Am i right, my guy now we're talking uh everything's falling down want to sleep. Well, it's your first day in the job there we came.

We got what we came to get uh all right, make kind of a big deal out of nothing like i say when i initially looked at that, i thought they were studs, so i was just trying to avoid a whole regular, oh here, especially especially when you're Dealing with something old uh like this thing, the old dakota anything old, oh three uh - it definitely is not from new york. I think we discovered doing the parking brake stuff - that's crusty, but it's not 2003 crusty important power steering system should be flushed all right. Well, we didn't have any catastrophic failures. I'm not super concerned with that.

Uh we're just changing it, because i've cleaned up the bracket in the parts washer to get all the shmoo off it and wash my patties warranty, don't void your warranty, always flush. Well, that's how you get out of a warranty every time. Why? Because ain't nobody flushing it uh, don't get me wrong. If we had catastrophic failure and it shot the system right full of metal, absolutely we'd flush it, then you got one short bolt.

Stick that in a short hole. That's this one right here: we've got the longer ones that go in the deeper holes, all right. That makes sense to you we'll, take and tighten her up well yeah. I guess, as i was saying, i'm not going to flush it.

We didn't have catastrophic failure. It's not like the system. You know fold, metal or anything. My opinion look at the torque spec.

For these now that that's all torqued down to factory specs, we will get a pulley installer, so we're going to thread down in the middle of that pump there we're going to need that little guy. I need that. I need to pop the middle out of him. Oh take this off there.

If i have to lube this screw too, it's been a while she's feeling dry totally did not just lube the screw. That started like that, then we'll hold that one and tighten that one and run her down until she's flush. I don't have any wrenches out here: they're gon na fit this we'll find some beautiful, oh she's, a little snug. Now, hey one size fits all she's flush right there take care of our fully installer.

Here, almost dropped it again um. I think. That's it folks, uh. What we'll do this is where the line goes, things all bust, it off uh.

It did come with some new o-rings. Let's see here something something uh showing the pressure release that's already in. We don't need that. We just need the one small o-ring.

Let me uh. Let me look at the back of our pump. Make sure it's the same. I don't remember these studs hanging off.

I don't know if they interfere with anything. If they don't we're just going to leave them, let me have a peek, so the oem pump does use flush mounted bolts just want to see. If this looks like the same thread here - and it is so - we don't have to worry about uh pulling that baby out, i'm gon na leave the studs on. I don't think they're gon na interfere with anything back there as long as there's no wiring harness or none of that business, we'll just leave them.

Uh must be for a different application, maybe on gm or something i'm just going to leave the plug. In top of it, until we get it in should be able to fish it right down through here, i just want to hold it up. There make sure those studs aren't going to be a problem, and it does not appear. One is down quite low, nothing around the other one, so we should be in good shape uh.

This is proved to be more difficult to record than i anticipated, because i can't get you guys in a good angle, yeah. It seems kind of be no matter where i put you, you can't see either you can't see - or i can't see so we're gon na stick this bracket on. Obviously, i've gone through and torqued the other bolts to factory spec. So now we'll get both of these nuts put back on.

Do not forget to hook up that ground wire. That would be a surprise. Surprise. You just grounded it through everything else.

Speaking of that, we got one coming in tomorrow, newer dodge young buck said. If i can do it, you can do it and all that he went put a new battery in his damn dodge ram and he hooked it up. Guess what they gave me the wrong battery. It was a reverse terminal.

He said a lot of smoke was coming out of a lot of things wants us to have a look to see if we just need to to reset some stuff. I laughed and laughed and said: okay, uh yeah that ain't gon na be cheap fella. It's a bunch of smoke was coming out of the fuse box, and apparently now it still starts and miraculously it still starts and runs, don't know how, because he's apparently he's got no dash, no power steering lots of stuff that doesn't work, but it still starts and Runs miracle i'm going to take and finish wrenching these ones on folks, not gon na bore you with that. So you got ta put the new o-ring on end, your line, which i already did and then for the next um 45 minutes.

Try to get the line started and then, if you can't get it just walk away and then come back, you'll start it within the first five seconds. That's typically how these things go sometimes, but not always that baby slid right in maybe maybe not like darn tooting. That you have it started straight before you stick a wrench on it. You know wiggle it.

If it pops right back out, then it ain't right, fella. I know it's very tempting to stick a wrench on it, but make darn sure like that one's almost all the way in by hand. So that's good, okay right before we get it tight. We're gon na have to hold down on that line, to keep it out of the way we got ta be pretty close right now i pushed it down so now we just need to snug it.

You don't have to kill these fittings here. They with o-ring style. Just kind of very gingerly snug it up so there's that now it's nice and snug and the line is out of our way and then i guess being that we're right here. Ah, let's see we got ta pop that little rubber off the return line.

I hope that just went to no man's land now we're going to hook up our return hose, but we're going to have to squeeze that clamp, so i'm going to get in there with a pair of pliers on one end my hand with the other give it A squeeze and a push, push push push there, we go there. She is all right with a little bit of luck. You might have saw something uh, but if not, hopefully the play-by-play was good enough. At this point, you just got ta fish, your belt back up and around which i already did and then don't be a ding-dong hook.

It on your tensioner. First, get your wrench on there slip her up on all the way, we'll make sure that we're in all the grooves everything looks good. Oh got some stuff down here in the bottom. We got a ruler in case you're, like hey.

How long have i been here? Huh and a zip tie free what else is in there? That's it. I don't know what these are for, but we'll stick them to the side. Nothing we lost, not standard equipment. Then we're going to stick this on here got some blue tape on there.

For some reason see if we can't fish this baby back so got little slots it lines up, and you kind of have to you're gon na have to give it a feel, make sure it goes in because you can easily get them on the outside of it. Where it'll still line up on these studs, but it's definitely not correct, so make darn sure that you get them in there. You know what i think about baby going through the fan, so i'm going to put them two nuts back on there, we'll get her filled up and then we're pretty much done. But before we start it, i got ta throw an o2 sensor.

Now, before the next person comes in we're going to fill her to the top. I've got the negative battery unhooked, because i want the coats to clear. So hopefully we can get a drive cycle and i didn't want to cycle the key to clear the code. Whoa wow super close, oh two, sensors installed batteries hooked up the cap is on i sucked a little bit of fluid out of there we'll fire it up.

It's gon na be a little noisy. I imagine actually not too warped, lower fan shroud sitting when i had that upper fan shot off i'd, seen some marks right smack in the very bottom of the lower fan shroud, where it looked like the fan was hitting, but i don't ever recall hearing it uh, We'll have to get underneath it and see if that lower fan shroud is attached, how it should be, because if i tweak back on that a little bit, you hear it, you know just barely touching it uh i've got to let it warm up. I'm still going to keep proceeding here. I've got to try to get a drive cycle out of it, so hopefully we can throw a sticker on uh because the oxygen sensor - you guys, didn't see that uh.

If i diagnosed that that was it, that would go wrong with it still waiting on a windshield inspection, wise and uh. Just a couple other little petty things we got to take care of. So i guess we'll leave it at that folks, uh kind of a silly video uh, just some average nuts and bolts stuff. Now you might like to see it, but if not be sure to let me go no down there in the comment section whack that thumbs down while you're down there find us on the socials, the instinct, the facebook just my reviewers.

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