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I did not take pictures but generally followed an earlier post by perelet (sorry don't know how to give you the link). It was thread #644446.
It was pretty straightforward:
1. Drop exhaust system (I left the heat exchangers in place). Used deep creep on the nuts and they all came apart easily. O2 sensor on driver side needed to come out. Location of fasteners becomes very apparent.
2. Remove rear engine tin. About 8 10mm bolts removed from above. The 11mm nuts that you see from underneath are welded to the sheet metal-don't try to remove. Had to remove the air duct on the left side of the engine to get easy access to a few of the bolts. Some maneuvering required to wiggle it out.
3. Driver side timing cover is now easily accessible. May need to loosen distributor slightly to get better access to a few nuts, but I didn't remove it.
Haven't gone after the passenger side yet, but looks like the following steps:
4. Support engine and remove rear engine support bracket from rear mounts.
5. Remove AC compressor (hoses stay connected), remove drive belts.
6. Remove drive pulley (may need special tool 0072192851). Perelet removed the rear bumper and had easy access, I'm hoping not to have to do this.
7. Remove AC bracket
8. Should give me access to the passenger side timing cover
With everything apart I'm planning on replacing the timing cover gaskets (2), rubber seals for the nuts (18), chain tensioner gaskets (2) and O-rings (6 total, 2 different parts) for the oil bridge that feeds the housing. Will probably also do my valve covers, valve adjustment and plugs while I'm at it, but will have to drop the heat exchangers for this.
So far it's been much easier than I anticipated.
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