How easy is it to get the turbo off without taking the head off ?

Just need to swap it with my new one.

Ta..

 

Quite fiddly but not impossible, iirc you may have to modify a spanner to make it fit

 

take the cover (if you have one fitted) then undo the three nuts holding the exhaust on
then the slighty tricky bit is the four nuts that hold on the turbo due to space limitations
but if you can do all the above should come straight off
might be wore while spraying all the nuts with a penertrating release oil of some kind first and letting it soak in

 

The turbo will come off by just removing the four nuts, but a variety off spanners are required. But be warned even with these nuts undone, it may not move. I had to whack the living daylights out of mine to break the initial seal with a soft hammer, no amount of wd40 did it. Once that seal has broken its oK, I changed my turbo 4 times in two weeks, so it can be done with just the four nuts.

 

Will have ago over the weekend..

I know i am going to end up taking the head off, i am just trying to resist

 

get a ring spanner and cut part of the ring out to make it three quarters of a ring,you will also need to bend a spanner or 2 as well,quite time consuming but a lot better than removing head or exhaust manifold