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Thanks for all the help I found what thread they are it's 5/16 24 Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Just an update, I had to wait for the weather to clear up (no luxury garage ), I pulled the rad and then balancer/timing cover off and realigned to tdc which the mark on the pulley was about 30 mm out so outback jack was correct around 12 o'clock was good I put it all back togther with new timing cover gasket/seal and said a few hell marys and turn the key and it purred like a cat warmed it up and put it into timing mode which took a few goes (knew something was going to go wrong it was going too well ) Set it to 5deg and through some 98 fuel it it and it is like a new motor. Cheers and thank you fro everyones help

Yea Iol I was rather frustrated it stopped me putting in my T5 I had organised to use a mates hoist yesterday but couldn't drive the bloody thing there because of 4 little bolts I had to order them in it was the 5th different thread I tried lol Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

Yep, been there recently also. Replacement water pump and the thread for the four small pulley bolts were different. Who'd have known, pretty frustrating at the time

That rings a bell from the last time someone had this same problem on here. Looks like new pumps are metric, probably M8 x 1.25. The originals would have been 5/16" UNF if they were like clevos (and of the very few fine-thread bolts on the engine) Sent from my CPH1920 using Tapatalk