Top End Rebuild - Day 13

Must have spent about 4 hours on the car today. It's amazing how much time goes by and how little you accomplish when working on a 560SEL. Its like a black hole. You do two jobs and days go by in the real world. Figured out how to get the P/S pump mounting bracket off - there was one more bolt hiding under the grease. Took like half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't coming off.

Had to take off the driver's side secondary firewall in order to reach bolts #18 and #17. Was more work than the passenger's side. Lots of little connectors and things on the driver's side.

The top guide rail pin on the driver's side seems seized as well. Instead of my bolt snapping inside like the passenger's side, the threads in the pin stripped out this time. Annoying. Going to have to split the chain on the driver's side as well. Will need to join it again when I come to rolling in a new chain. I've ordered a master link separately for this.

Spent the bulk of the time on trying to remove the driver's side exhaust manifold from the car. Its already fully unbolted, but there are two studs in place, so it's not sliding off. I managed to get the front section off with a lot of fettling, but I gave up trying to get the rear part out. Its just not possible without removing the studs. And how do you remove the studs when there is barely any space there to fit a few nuts on it? I think I need a fancy stud remover tool or something.

Started taking off the driver's side heads bolts, did #18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13. Will do the rest next time.