Removal

1. Raise the car on a lift and remove the front right wheel.

2. Remove front splash guard located under front bumper.







3. Drain the coolant.

4. Disconnect the negative (-) battery lead and cover the terminal pole on the battery.







5. Snip through the ties securing the wiring and hoses to the torque arm. Remove the torque arm.







6. Disconnect the earth lead from the cylinder head and tuck it out of the way.







7. Ease the drive belt off the pulley and insert locking pin into tensioner.







8. Remove the locking pin from the belt tensioner and the tensioner securing bolts from the cylinder head.







9. Place a protective steel panel or the like in front of the oil cooler. Unbolt the fixings for the AC compressor and place it, with suitable protection underneath, on the radiator crossmember.







10. Remove the compressor bracket.







11. Undo the nuts, lift the exhaust manifold off the studs and then lower it onto the subframe.







12. Unplug the connector from the air mass meter.







13. Remove the rubber elbow and air mass meter assembly from between the throttle housing and the intake-air silencer. Stuff rag into the open end of the silencer.







14. Disconnect the electrical lead from the thermostatic switch.


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15. Disconnect the heater box hose from the thermostat housing.







16. Disconnect the top coolant hose from the cylinder head.







17. Remove the clip for the DI wiring loom from the pressure-sensor bracket.







18. Undo the four screws and lift the ignition module (cartridge) out of the way.







19. Undo the securing bolts for the fuel-pressure regulator complete with bracket and hoses out of the way.

20. Remove the top bolts securing the top of the inlet manifold to the bottom half.







21. Disconnect the throttle cable from the throttle linkage (Automatics: and the kickdown cable).







22. Unplug the connector from the throttle-position sensor.

23. Disconnect the preheater hoses from the throttle housing.







24. Disconnect the crankcase-breather and vacuum hoses from the camshaft cover.







25. Remove the camshaft sprockets.







25. Remove the two bolts securing the timing cover to the cylinder head from underneath.







26. Soak up any oil. Making sure first that the timing chain is not in the way, lift off the cylinder head.