Right had a busy day, mot on my landy and beetle this moring, the wifes birthday and taken the head of the aston!
Well heres the story so far
1-Remove plugs and leads
2-Locate TDC
3-Drain water (i chose to just loosen up the pipe and let it trickle, as i didnt fancy disturbing the rad area and creating more potential issues later on)
4-Remove rocker cover breathers
5-Remove camshaft covers
6-Disconect alternator and bracket
7-Remove chain cover
8-Disconect throttle and vacum pipe
9-Disconect carbs
10-Remove dip stick
11-Disconect header tank pipe, temperature sensor wire and control valve
12-Disconect dizzy lead
13-Disconect manifolds
14-Remove the 4 front cylinder head bolts
15-"
16- Remove ignition lead tube
17- Mark and double mark camshafts
18-"
19-Mark upper chain tensioner
20-Note position of tensioner
21-Remove tensioner (big nut 13 turns, small 1/3 turn)
22-Slacken and remove chain guides
23-Remove chain with out moving cams and lay chain to left to avoid loosing it into the block
24-Remove remaining 14 Nuts (in reverse 'torque up' order)
25-Lift the head
26- Pint of beer (or 2)!