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use handle of large screw driver or engine hoist handle and put it through cam gears and/or with thermostat housing use water passageway. Do NOT hit with any device dead blow or anything. There are dowels that prevent and side to side. Watched a buddy blow out a chunk of his head with a dead blow. He said they were "aluminum safe" ! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif
I don't recommend using the cam gears. there are four spots two on the front & two on the back specifically for popping the head loose. smallish flats opposing one another. you can pry pretty hard on those spots to walk it loose if you need to.
too dark now but I will snap a pic tomorrow if you'd like.
+one on having all the intake & turbo support brackets off first.
I leave the intake and exhaust manifolds on so I can use them as handles....
Don't pry on the gears, just keep wiggling it back and forth, remember there are 10 head bolts. Also if your intake is still attached there is a bracket on the back that needs to be removed, it supports the intake from below. I've forgotten about that before.
In the pic the lower part is the single hole, you will either need to sneak up and take the two top bolts out of the plenum, or take the single lower bolt out. I'd opt to try for the intake side bolt, IIRC the lower bolt is tough to get to. I haven't had this piece on for years....
If you end up needing any valve work done let me know. I have all the equipment that I rarely use and would be willing to help out. We are not that far from each other!
Quoting DynastyLCD:
Quoting gvr4ever:
They really didn't build these cars to work on.
no offense O.P... but /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif
Well, I'm glad you can get a laugh that I struggled with it. I'm not sure why you even bothered posting about it. This is the tech section of the forum, not anything goes.
Saying that they didn't build these cars to work on isn't exactly a technical fact either. It's just your opinion. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
Sorry if you had trouble, but I think he was just razzing you. Honestly, if you think these cars are hard to work on, you must not have much experience working on other cars that are much more difficult.
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