Can anyone suggest a way of removing a stuck cylinder head from a 2.5tdi engine. I have tried talking to it nicely. I have even tried lifting up the front of the head with an engine lift until it ran out of grunt as the front wheels started to come off the ground. Still while attached to the lift I then tried knocking upward with a block of wood and a persuader and then knocking down with the same lump of wood on a part of the engine that is not part of the head. I even tried using a 4' crow bar while it was suspended on the engine lift and bent the end of the bar, as it slipped out it then removed a piece of the aluminium back plate to the belt cover.
I have definately removed all the bolts unless you know of one cunningly hidden.
I will be getting the head surface ground but I can't afford damage to the block.
In all my years of doing heads I have never seen one stuck so well and have never seen one with the inlets so coked up. When the engine was fitted I didn't like the look of the coking in the inlet tube and had the turbo rebuilt properly. On a test drive the exhaust was very smokey and there was no power. In fact it was worse than the 2.5di engine it replaced. This is a replacement engine for my Mk4 Ambulance Camper without an ECU so I have needed to blank the vacuum pipes that come off the turbo and the EGR valve. I have not touched the vacuum pipe that operates the waste gate though.