[TYBEEISLAND]

You all are great.. I knew I should have come here first! Silly me, anyhow we are printing all this out for reference to use under the shade tree.

[Petronski]

The covers over those timing belts will have some half-assed rubber gasket designed to keep out all things wet. If the gasket is damaged or torn, look for a product at Autozone called RTV, it is gasket in a tube. Get the high-temp kind just to be sure.

Oh, by the way, I have no connection with Autozone, except for just loving their free-tool-loaner program and the way I can reliably check their inventory online, for pricing etc. AdvanceAutoParts does this too, but we have none nearby.

[Petronski]

It is better to perish than to live as slaves.

This is one of my favorite Churchill quotes (I am a serious Churchillian).

I, too, love this place.

[Truth Addict]

If you're really going to do this yourself, be forewarned, the worst problem I had was in pulling the cover. Many of the bolts holding it on have, instead of nuts, a metal sleeve pressed into the plastic cover on the back side. If the threads are sufficiently frozen, what will happen is that the sleeve will break free from the plastic and just spin, making it impossible to unscrew the bolt.

I wound up taking a hacksaw blade, and cutting the head of the bolt off, and then replacing it with a new bolt and nut when it came time to reassemble. You will need to remove both fans and their housings to get to some of the bolts.