**Part 5 of Thread**This is getting addictive, was laying under the van at 7.45am on a Sunday morning in the pouring rain (yes i am working on it outside) and thought you must be mad!! But here we go...
First thing in this part is a safety note, I am making sure that I am able to post the next part of the thread as I go so maybe a bit over cautious but you need to prop up the rear of the engine before undoing anything, see pic below, don't use a jack as these can sag, use axle stands.
Where the transmission mounts to the rear of the engine there are a number of bolts and brackets holding on a cover that need removing, these are shown below. Start with the smaller headed bolts first, the two center ones and then there is one other passenger side right up by the oil filter. When these are removed you then have 4 larger headed bolts to remove the two brackets.
Driver side bracket shown below, you can also see the hole where i removed the starter motor from in my earlier post.:-
To remove the shield you need to prize it off over the stud that protrudes by the starter motor hole, once off this is what the shield looks like, see below:-
That's it for me this weekend, hopefully do some more during the week. Keep watching! Mark