Hello group,
I've been plotting and researching my single turbo
conversion for awhile, (and luckily did most of my research while this
forum still had a search feature <-- Supraforums joke) and I finally began the work of
removing the twins on Sunday afternoon. I worked for about an hour,
removing the twin
piping, the vacuum manifold, and the turbo heat shield. I then gave
every exhaust manifold nut I could see a liberal shot of PB Blaster.
After about 15 minutes of letting the PB soak in, I removed the front 5
nuts on top of the manifold, and the front two on the bottom. I then
got under the car, and soaked every other manifold nut I could see.
After that, I called it a day.
Monday afternoon, I was back at it, removing the rearmost top exhaust
manifold nut, the BPU down pipe, and a couple of stays from beneath the
car. That allowed me access to the remainder of the exhaust manifold
nuts on the bottom, using my handy "Pecos Wrench":
This wrench is a long handled double box wrench, with a 12mm box on one
side, and a 14mm box on the other. The Mac tool dealer sells it for
about $30. Thanks to this wrench, I was able to remove all of the
exhaust manifold nuts without having to remove the EGCV elbow, and deal
with "the b!tch nut". I disconnected the water lines, the front oil
feed/return line, the rear feed/return line, and the twins were ready
to come out. I did end up cutting about 4" off the rear oil return,
because it hooks around the motor mount, and was hanging up the
assembly.
With that done, I had a friend help me lift out the assembly. The whole
process took just under 3 hours worth of work, and none of it was hard
at all.
