coolant leak

[saddlesore]

  I had a leak through the water pump gasket so figured not too bad of a job.  I drained it and took the hose off.  I was very careful removing the bolts from the cover cause I didn't want to snap.
  The two short bolts came out OK but the longer ones loosened but I couldn't get them out.  There was so much corrosion in the non threaded area around the bolt that it wouldn't come out even though the bolt was unscrewed.
   I put liquid wrench on and worked it in and out using a pneumatic ratchet.  That finally loosened things up.  No amount of leverage worked before that.
  I didn't find any mention of this in the tech files and was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
  It took longer getting those two bots out than the rest of the project.   

[gordonv]

I don't think too many people have done that job. I've done one on my old GL1100. But there has been more mentioned on the front timing cover bolts having the same thing on some (one) bolt. But I don't think anyone yet has had it that bad.

I would be careful with that pneumatic ratchet, steel bolts in aluminum parts. Let those penetrating liquids do their magic a little first. Unless you where just using something to save the time of manually running that bolt in/out, with no real torque on it.

[BobB]

I had to replace my entire pump several years ago.  Don't forget to use Anti-Sieze on the screws when reassembling...

[saddlesore]

   The bolts were  fairly loose at that time.  I was hesitant but glad I did it.
   The anti seize is a good idea. Wish I would have thought of it.