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Cool! Thanks!
The block drain is on the right side of the engine. If you put your nose down just over the strut and point a flashlight between the back two plugs and the center exhaust manifold you will see it.
I just put a CSI electric water pump in my '76 99GL. I took the old pump out by curling a heavy solid wire firmly around the (bolt-like) screw on top of the impeller and tightening it down, looping the wire over a big 7 foot metal pry bar and putting a piece of 2x4 on the engine block near the pump to rest the pry bar on, putting my shoulder under the other end and standing up slowly. But mine was a "Version 1".
If yours is not a Version 1 pump - this won't work. Version 2 has a nut only. Version 3 is without any screw or nut.
All the hoses went back on just the way they came off! (!!!!!!) All I did was block the small hole in the pump housing with a round bolt "of the proper diameter" cut to a little over an inch long. It blocks the hole and the hose too. The new pump sits in front of the left wheel well. I moved the gasoline recovery canister to the back of the wheel well.
You will need to pull the air cleaner out of the way to drill the holes. The pump NEEDS TO BE INSTALLED LOW ENOUGH SO THE HOOD BRACE DOESN'T HIT THE HOSES. (Two 90 degree hoses from Car Quest # 20137 work just fine) from the radiator to the pump and from the pump to the reservoir - cut to length. From CSI, I bought the 925 Remote Water Pump (from MartelBros.com) and two 906 adapters - which were installed on one side of the pump - both sticking up in the installation. It's better if the back one to the reservoir be almost vertical. You need another pump plug like the one that comes in the kit for the extra hole. Mine was in the basement. (My folks lived through the depression.)
I'm just now getting the electricals put together but in the test run, with everything running as it should, the heater produced so much temperature in the defroster - fan on high, heater control on max - that I could'nt leave my hand over the vent for very long.
It was too hot.
Good luck. It's almost still fun,
Bill Bob
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