Cleaning/painting the cam cover

[franv8]

Yes and no. The fuel pipes need to be disconnected, there will be residual pressure in these, best is remove the fuel pump fuse and try and run the engine.

Worst is - make sure everything is cold, and you have a drip tray under the car, undo them (wear goggles) and watch the spray!

The manifold does both block off a coolant passage in the head and have a couple of small coolant hoses to it (warm up valve and throttle body heating) - so the coolant will need to be drained (dead easy on a 5 - small plastic plug middle bottom of the radiator - there's a generpus hole in the undertray) - catch it for reuse if its new-isha nd anti-freezed.

Then Bob's your mothers brother!

(Note there is also an electrical connector at the rear end of the manifold, and two connectors at the throttle body, and of course the accelerator cable also to remove)

Hoep this helps

Francis.

[roverspeed]

I brush painted my manifold in situ, looks just as good I think, will get a picture up asap.

Little bit akward in places, but I just couldn't be arsed taking the manifold apart to paint it.