2012 2.2 E5 RWD Mk 7 back of head.

[tranmx2]

Got the engine and gearbox apart. Used ratchet strap on the crane. Rope around the sump and front x member with a tourniquet. Tighten, tighten, up down, right left wiggle. Hit the gearbox with a long bar and lump hammer. All repeated several times and it was apart. Yes 12 holes and I have 10 bolts. The now exposed comfae bolt laying on its own some at the top of the gearbox.
Now I can get into the big hole in the engine bay, with a small stool I could sit in comfort, look out and see where I might go realising the pleasurable knowledge that the comfae bolt is there just behind me.

A hairs breadth was betwixt the front x member the engine and the top of the engine bay, makes yer wonder how they does do it.
Like a thermos flask - how does it know to keep the hot things hot and the cold things cold?

[marc1234567]

Got the engine and gearbox apart. Used ratchet strap on the crane. Rope around the sump and front x member with a tourniquet. Tighten, tighten, up down, right left wiggle. Hit the gearbox with a long bar and lump hammer. All repeated several times and it was apart. Yes 12 holes and I have 10 bolts. The now exposed comfae bolt laying on its own some at the top of the gearbox.
Now I can get into the big hole in the engine bay, with a small stool I could sit in comfort, look out and see where I might go realising the pleasurable knowledge that the comfae bolt is there just behind me.

A hairs breadth was betwixt the front x member the engine and the top of the engine bay, makes yer wonder how they does do it.
Like a thermos flask - how does it know to keep the hot things hot and the cold things cold?

Didn't read properly and saw stool mentioned and thought damn does this guy have his van on a ramp. envious

[tranmx2]

Yes the hydraulic ramp - it is now a necessity -. Tis but a dream. But cheapo beggar that I have been and still am makes do with a shallow trench some off cuts of scaffold planks bits of board from pallets to have the elevated vehicle under which I look and do. In the trench draughty and wet though it is on overcast windy days I think of the future hoping for the sun to shine.
To sit on the stool in that now empty space and be forward looking - one day an hydraulic ramp shall fall just there in front and up goes the van for a look under.
So uplifting is life.