13 November 2020 A couple of hours on Friday night making a start on dismantling the engine ancillaries. The exhaust manifold shield was unbolted along with the exhaust manifold after some liberal application of oenetrating fluid. I had to undo and remove the dip stick clamp and then pull out the dipstick tube to remove the manifold. I also had to undo the EGR pipe where it joins the exhaust manifold. The EGR system will be removed when the engine is rebuilt. The joint where the manifold joins the down pipe came undone quite easily after removing the bracket that supports it on to the bell-housing. I undid the remaining exhaust joints and removed the exhaust. Inlet Manifold I tried to follow the manual and some online videos for removing the inlet manifold but I found that the VVT manifold is a bit different. I could not get the fuel rail out, I had undone the nuts but they would not come out past the inlet manifold. I had to unbolt the top half of the inlet manifold/plenum which was held in place by 7 nuts and bolts. I had already removed the throttle body but I don't think that was necessary. Once the top of the manifold was off I was able to extract the bolts for the fuel rail and lift it out with the injectors. This made it simple to undo the electrical connections for the injectors. Even though the fuel tank has been removed for over a week there was still fuel in the injectors and the rail. Once the fuel rail was out of the way I undid the EGR valve to allow access to the rearmost manifold bolt. Both the bolts for the EGR valve sheared so they will need to be drilled out so I can blank off the EGR inlet. I also undid the inlet side of the EGR pipe and removed that completely. Then it was a simple case of undoing the manifold nuts and sliding the inlet manifold off the block.
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