[GFXjamie]

well after a bit more fighting, it is out. did not have to remove passenger side axle either!

since my header was out, it made more room to come out top. not only that, but what i did was removed the top stud into the motor to allow even more room, its one long ass stud tell ya what. now the tricky part will be getting new one in, installing plactic sheild once past valve cover and then re installing stud, then sliding onto studs, re install belt, tighted all bolts and move forward.

about f***ing time, took me 1.5 hours to remove it so.... not bad for where it is mount. this thing is DIRTY to the max, like black and it even still smells kinda funky town. compared to rest of engine bay its disgusting...

anyways, back to ripping stuff apart, redoing hood and whatever. write up will come when i do re install some time within the next week possibly next weekend.

thanks for listening to my babbling