Okay, I may be on to something here. I’ve been staring at my engine bay for the past 15 minutes and i’ve decided that I may just have a go at it myself.
unbolt heatshield
remove hotpipe
remove turbo extension
unbolt that little black box to the upper right of the manifold so it can be moved out of the way
unbolt manifold
and 6) is where I get stuck.
I imagine 6 should be: unbolt the 4 bolts that secure the manifold to the turbo. however, these bolts (for some ungodly reason) are not on the top, they are underneath and they seem impossible to get to. Help.
Yes that is the most difficult part of the job, that is what we are talking about. You will have trouble at it, but they can be had with a 13mm wrench/smallsocket.
So i’ve made so much progress that I hate to have to post again but here’s the problem:
I’ve unbolted everything!
Nothing is in the way!
Those damn four bolts on the underside are removed (lost one in the process)!
However, how do I actually get the manifold off now? it’s like 8 studs going from the block to the manifold running horizontally into the manifold, and then the four studs from the manifold running vertically down into the turbo.