Hi Folks,

OK today i bit the bullet, and decided that today was the day, to remove the manifold !

All 10 nuts came undone quite easily, although access to 2 of the bottom ones was a bit of ******* !

Used the Ambersil rust flash to give the nuts/studs a good soaking , and weather or not it helped i will never know, but i need not have worried, no broken studs etc !
One slight twitch in the bottom department, one nut was VERYYYYYYYY tight indeed !

It worked out to be a very very and i mean very small leak on the No1 exhaust port ( you could just about see the soot mark coming over the embossed section on the gasket face !)

Cleaned up all the mating surfaces, new gaskets, new nuts, copper grease all the studs  and hey presto, no more little leak !

Thanks to all that previously provided words of encouragment etc , saying it would be all right on the night it was , but boy Mr Bum hole was working overtime to day !!!

Cheers me dears,

Mark ( happy chappy )

Nice one. I have a passenger side V6 manifold with a rounded stud waiting for me

The secondary air pump is in the passenger side front corner above the car horns.