Replacing the Water Pump Cam Seals on 1982 Mercruiser 470 -Day Two

[ChazzL]

(I discontinued this thread and continued with the "Replacing the Water Pump Cam Seals on 1982 Mercruiser 470 -Day One" thread. Sorry for the confusion).

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

Re: Replacing the Water Pump Cam Seals on 1982 Mercruiser 470 -Day Two

You should keep this going as one thread so it can be referred back to for others, will be easier as one thread. Keep it going, what did you eventually do to get the allen bolts out of the stator?

 

[ChazzL]

Re: Replacing the Water Pump Cam Seals on 1982 Mercruiser 470 -Day Two

I was wondering if the post would get too long. Also, I thought there was some limit (6?) to the number of attachments/pics per thread. Is that true? I can go back and put this as an addition to the "Day One" but I thought it was getting long.
On the stator: I got one bolt out with the smallest bilt extractor I have, but it only slipped on the last one. I had to cut the head off with a cutting wheel. It still would not give up the stator, but since it was now the only remaining bolt I just wiggled the stator and broke it off at the block. The stator is trash anyway.