Need some help, waterpump/pulley install multiple fail
 

so i was installing my shiny new mazmart waterpump tonight, and it was going pretty well. Until i started putting everything back on and accidentally dropped a nut into the engine bay right behind the thermostat housing/pulley tensioner. I tried my best to get it, even took off the alternator but to no avail, so do you think this will cause a problem for me in the long run? or will the nut fall out eventually under the car while im driving.

2nd fail of the night was when i broke the waterpump pulley bolt by over torqueing it. :banghead: the manual said 70lb/ft and it broke without even reaching that torque level, wtf

now im screwed 2 days before a trackday, hopefully tommorow i can get everything back together again :mad:

umm do u have a magnet extension.. was it a bolt that fell that goes on to the water pump or alternator

+1 Magnet wands are a must have for anyone that works on their own car!

I am guessing 70 inch lbs, not foot lbs.

70 inch/lbs = 5.83 ft/lbs
70 newton-meters = 50 ft/lbs

Absolutely correct

o man i just looked at the reference image again and feel like an idiot :pat:

thanks! hopefully today i get it right lol

http://foxed.ca/rx7manual/2003mazdar...HU0112W004.png

good luck on the DIY waterpump... great website!

wow ....

your going to need to take the front cover off to get to that over tq'd bolt. you can try and use a shit ton of rtv but that's risky.

it was the bolt on the pulley mount, not the front cover, but i got it out the next day pretty easy, just kinda panicked the night before haha

LOl nice!

I thought it was a bolt on the pump housing another guy on here did that to his car.