Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! New Wheel Pics Page 90

[Len]

that engine gona be a beast when its run in. you got to be looking at 175/185bhp there easily.

It had better be more than that!

[Len]

Well have managed to shift 6 of the exhaust manifold nuts! Nice new hex head socket did that!
But there are two lower ones on the middle section that seem impossible to reach!
have to raise the car a bit more and get under !!!

[Len]

That didnt work as no room to get a hand up through!
Maybe when the driveshafts are out of the way! So thats next job!

[Len]

Back at work so no progress until Saturday pm.

[tweed]

You going to be doing track days or anything? 
Reason I ask is that I wouldn't want to see this engine blow up with the amount of money you spent on it because its been starved of oil!

You thought about baffled sump kit?

[Len]

I might take it around Castle Combe once just to see how it goes but I'm not a track person, I'm a road driver. I like to take corners when your only have a maximum of 4 metres to play with rather than a 20 metre wide track!
I will be taking it to Santa Pod again to see what the time will be to compare with when I did it standard!

So no I dont need a baffled sump!

[Len]

Bit of progress this afternoon, I finally managed to get the exhaust manifold off!!! Yay!
F*ckin thing!
Took it off the front mount and tilted the engine well forward and managed to get at the two middle nuts under the manifold.
That was after further abortive work trying to undo the the plate joint, thinking there were only 4 nuts/studs holding that! Finally got those 4 off then realised there were two more in the middle, one of which was virtually impossible to get at!

Cracked off the two rear engine mounts, so all I have to do now is the driveshafts.

Oh and Josh I put the gear selector back in and disconnected the cables as you suggested!

[Len]

Driveshafts are disconnected!

Only problem is I can now see that the inner boot has a darn great hole in it so that another job to do!

Wanted to take the sump off before taking the engine out but you cant unless you  undo all the bolts and pull the engine away from the gearbox as at least 2 bolts sit inside the flywheel!

[vwwvgolf]

you can get them with those allen keys with the ball end, not sure what the proper name is tho

[thai-wronghorse]

Ball ended Allen keys. 

Personally I used a 1/4 drive socket on a universal joint without too much struggling.