[jscorse]

That's the just the kind of advise I need. I'm just as much a wuss. Special tooling scares me. The valve cover on my 2.5L straight four in the Buick was cake. This seems a 'bit' more challenging.

Hey, at least the service guy actually suggested that I leave the water pump alone. "I don't do those unless they leak now. Should be fine." 'course where's his risk? If it fails a month later he get's paid to repair that as well.