The job shouldn't be that bad.
You first suspend the engine from the top and support it on the front against the firewall.
Then you loosen the top stabilizer link and the gear box mount. Do not loosen the lower right engine mount.
Lowering the engine carefully down, it will pivot around the right engine mount and leave you enough place to replace the pump.
No, sorry that is not the way to do it, and if David had read the recent magazine I stated how in my article on the 2.2 engine.
All you need to do is support the gearbox, and remove the gearbox mounting cross bolt. Then lower the gearbox carefully, which will swing the engine away from the RH inner wing giving enough room to change the water pump.
I have to admit I have never tried it myself, but this is the way it's done and described in the manual AFAIR.
This is one of the places the official manual is wrong, as stated in my article. You do not need to do anything with the RH engine mount, nor suspend the engine, but you may have to loosen the stabiliser link - can't remember now as it's been a long while since I did the last one! Simply support and remove gearbox mounting and lower that end. If you have an 'S' or Prep 142 or any airbox that sits over the fuel tank, you need to remove that first, since it will foul the tank when you try to lower the gearbox.
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