Great video - thanks for taking the time to do this and help everyone else with the knowledge you gained! I did this job this weekend on my 2014 AWD Traverse. However, following a tip from another video of the power steering pump replacement, with the pump loose from the engine, there is enough room to position the pump so that you can get the pulley remover tool (which you can rent from AutoZone) on the pump with it still in the engine bay and remove the pulley. With the pulley and the pump separated, the pulley slips right out through the wheel well. Then you have to flip the pump around and Tetris it just right, but the pump itself (without the pulley) will also slip up and over the engine mount and roll out of the engine bay through the wheel well without having to drop the engine cradle. Installation is the reverse of removal, rolling the new pump up and in over the engine mount through the wheel well. Then flip it around to face forward and slip the pulley back up and in front of the pump, install the pulley press tool, and press the pulley onto the pump in the engine bay. Once the pulley is pressed, installation proceeds as shown in the video. The whole thing probably would have been easier on a hoist, but I did it on the ground with jack-stands. If it hadn't been freezing (multiple breaks inside to be able to feel my fingers again) and started snowing, and I had known the right way to Tetris the pump out, I probably could have finished the job in an hour and a half, maybe 2. As it was, it took me about 4 hours over 2 days (mostly due to the finger warming breaks).
I would encourage yall to search for another video for better info!! This guy I guess probly finished the job, a did I good job! But you don’t have to take the rod an all that stuff off, that’s why he got stuck an couldn’t pull it out! It’ll pull out through the center of the car!! Don’t do this!!
Great video - thanks for taking the time to do this and help everyone else with the knowledge you gained!
I did this job this weekend on my 2014 AWD Traverse. However, following a tip from another video of the power steering pump replacement, with the pump loose from the engine, there is enough room to position the pump so that you can get the pulley remover tool (which you can rent from AutoZone) on the pump with it still in the engine bay and remove the pulley. With the pulley and the pump separated, the pulley slips right out through the wheel well. Then you have to flip the pump around and Tetris it just right, but the pump itself (without the pulley) will also slip up and over the engine mount and roll out of the engine bay through the wheel well without having to drop the engine cradle.
Installation is the reverse of removal, rolling the new pump up and in over the engine mount through the wheel well. Then flip it around to face forward and slip the pulley back up and in front of the pump, install the pulley press tool, and press the pulley onto the pump in the engine bay. Once the pulley is pressed, installation proceeds as shown in the video. The whole thing probably would have been easier on a hoist, but I did it on the ground with jack-stands.
If it hadn't been freezing (multiple breaks inside to be able to feel my fingers again) and started snowing, and I had known the right way to Tetris the pump out, I probably could have finished the job in an hour and a half, maybe 2. As it was, it took me about 4 hours over 2 days (mostly due to the finger warming breaks).
I would encourage yall to search for another video for better info!! This guy I guess probly finished the job, a did I good job!
But you don’t have to take the rod an all that stuff off, that’s why he got stuck an couldn’t pull it out! It’ll pull out through the center of the car!! Don’t do this!!