02-10-2015, 01:44 AM
Thanks for the clarifications and image post.
Got the shifters off, got exhaust off, that was a relief. Not as bad as feared, did have one exhaust bolt that was a pain.
Note to other crazies
doing this: There's a bracket right under the exhaust manifold that is hard to see when you have your car jacked up high (and obscured in part by the bottom heat cover), and it needs to come off too. (oops) "Why won't that thing slide right off?". I removed the 2 bolts and sectioned the exhaust after the catalytic, made it easier, it's kind of heavy. Plus side, now can re-work my prior welded muffler repair and get things sealed up better, or install a brand new muffler.
In a kindness, factory machined the exhaust manifold cutout area for the 02 sensor just under size enough that no Oxygen sensor socked will quite set into the little gap between the nut area and that machining around it
Got the shifters off, got exhaust off, that was a relief. Not as bad as feared, did have one exhaust bolt that was a pain.
Note to other crazies
doing this: There's a bracket right under the exhaust manifold that is hard to see when you have your car jacked up high (and obscured in part by the bottom heat cover), and it needs to come off too. (oops) "Why won't that thing slide right off?". I removed the 2 bolts and sectioned the exhaust after the catalytic, made it easier, it's kind of heavy. Plus side, now can re-work my prior welded muffler repair and get things sealed up better, or install a brand new muffler.In a kindness, factory machined the exhaust manifold cutout area for the 02 sensor just under size enough that no Oxygen sensor socked will quite set into the little gap between the nut area and that machining around it