Some pics from last nights night-shift. A good, productive couple of hours....
The nuked p-clips debris....
These fasteners will also now be replaced with stainless items; the area was quite wet, some of the fixings already rusted.
Removal of the bumper and heat shields paying dividends; all the areas behind the shields look to be in fine fettle.
Access to the turbos supporting bracket fixing is now very easy (hoping to keep the turbo attached to the manifold for removal)
When originally fitting the oil feed hose to the turbo, I just about got by with the OE 9/16" spanner in my toolbox, but the width of the jaws allowed approximate 0.8659º of rotation before fouling the compressor housing. To remedy that, and in the same spirit of up-cycling my Grandads tools, I found one of his old offset ring spanners; brings the swinging height to the point of almost clearing the turbo housing and with the bi-hex ring, I can now really snug this hose fastening up nicely....
So, not a million miles away now - just need to uncouple the heat take-off pipework and then start swearing at the 12 locknuts on the header flanges, then removing the system...definitely a two-man job with the turbo still attached.