[RLDSL]

My ford factory manual says to remove right exhaust manifold to pull the heads.
Is this necessary or can i just yank the heads out with a cherry picker with the exhaust manifolds attached?

Thanks-----Robert

 

[cdnsarguy]

I believe if your doing the head removal with engine in the truck removal of the pax E manifold would make it easier. You will have to play with the push rods at the back, using a rubber band hold the one(s) you cannot remove suspended in place when you remove the head.

 

[RLDSL]

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I believe if your doing the head removal with engine in the truck removal of the pax E manifold would make it easier. You will have to play with the push rods at the back, using a rubber band hold the one(s) you cannot remove suspended in place when you remove the head.

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I bet I can just pull the AC evaporator cover off to get more access there. I did that a few weeks ago to do the valve stem seals. Pushrods pulled right out. Probably make it a bit easier to get to those back bolts too.

-----------Robert

 

[cdnsarguy]

I was going to suggest that too, go for it since you know how.

 

[xtremefreerider]

Did it a few months ago....I pulled the passenger side and left the driver side on and its worth the little extra to pull the manifold if your pulling the heads....Its much less moving metal to mess up whats left in the compartment when the heads are being pulled....Mind you I did mine without a chery picker or pulling the motor or hood....Turns out if your about 5'10" you can stand inside the motor compartment under the hood and lift the heads although I would not recomend it....yes I did have reasons as to why I didn't pull the hood.

 

[RLDSL]

Back when I was younger, I would have done it that way, but these days a cherry picker is a must, unless I want to become a permanant fixture in the engine compartment /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

----------Robert

 

[xtremefreerider]

Yea, I wouldn't do it that way again....although I don't plan on blowing headgaskets 6 days before school starts with just enough money for parts again...all the money I saved working in a steel foundry all summer. I thought about a cherry picker but couldn't get a free one soon enough and couldn't pay for one so I turned my 5'10" by 165lb body into one and it worked.....kind of...until they went back in and one still leaks slightly...but it hasn't hydro locked...nor has it be moved more than 50ft under its own power.