HI MATE yeh leave the inlet and exhuast on more to grab hold of ,then you can srip it on the bench better.when you come to put it back on cut 2 of your old head bolts heads off and cut a v in the top for a flat ended screw driver so you can screw these into the block to locate the new gasket as the bloke has no locating dowels.make sure you clean the head bolt holes in block out off old oil