Day 7 - A little bit behind schedule...

So, I thought I got rid of the cold, spent one day in the garage and woke up on Saturday with the cold being as bad again. So I had to stay home the entire Saturday and only got a few hours today. This means I didn't really get everything done according to schedule, but I still have a couple of days to go so it should be allright. This is what I've managed to do during the weekend.

Started off by removing the "rubber like protection" whatever these
are called, lol. :) from the wheelhouse. They are only attached with
clips so they are quite easy to remove.

Rubber like protection thingy removed. :)

Close-up of clips...

It gives a nice clearance from the wheelhouse.

Before dropping the wheel house, be sure to disassemble
anything connected to it. There are a bunch of cable holders
and some nuts to secure several things on it. All are quite visible
except for the one on the picture above. It's right next to the coolant
reserve tank and my wrench is attached to it.

Remove all bolts from within the wheel house, they are all
around and in quite vast numbers. They all look the same
except for the two in the rear of the wheel house that are
a bit bigger. I had some rust in the wheel house but it was
a lot less terrifying than I thought. :)

Carefully lower the wheel house. Normally wheel should be removed
before performing this, but I kind of went for a better-safe-than-sorry
mindset since I was alone in the garage under this heavy weight champion car. :)

Edit: Just to clarify, ofcourse I removed the wheel
afterwards in order to remove wheel house.

Passenger side wheel house removed.

This is what I call good clearance! A lot of rust, but most of it
looks like it hasn't gotten it's way through the steel, so I should
be able to handle it quite easily.

And Jocke, I know you read my blog. Hypothetically, would you
rather remove the spark plugs from this angle, or go through our
last session again? ;)

On to the drivers side wheel house. It has more things attached
to it than the passenger side. Mainly the windshield washer fluid
reservoir and the speed control system bracket. Washer fluid reservoir
is attached with three bolts. Two on the top as visible on above picture...

...and one on the bottom as visible on this picture.

After I removed the windshield washer fluid reservoir I also
removed the rubber thingy without a name on the drivers side. :)

It's a bit smaller on the drivers side, providing less clearance.

Tomorrow, my other brother(not the one from last post) will join me to assist on some heavy lifting. Plan is to remove hood and fenders. I really hope we can get it done tomorrow, it would feel great!