Well, I'm doomed to spend an afternoon then ... as a longtime air-head, VW water pump replacement is something at which I am definitely not practiced.  Though I have changed water pumps on marine diesels in my youth - bigger and heavier, but much easier to get at them.

On 30-Jul-2015, at 22:07, Robert Keezer wrote:

> I hate to say it , Roy, but the flat rate book allows 3.5 hours to change a waterboxer water pump, exactly the time it took me the last time.With trick tools and practice, it can be done in less I'm sure):Robert
> 1982 Westfalia
> 
> I had a look at the Bentley and replacing the pump looks fairly straight forward (like maybe an hours effort?),