James1486

I am in the process of removing the heads on my 01 Cobra and I have removed all head bolts and the heads will not come off we have got them to loosen but they will not budge beyond that...my question is does the crank case need to be removed in order to remove the heads

school boy

did you remove the timing chains?

James1486

yes we the chain and cam position and removed the cam gear

BraMas

did you undo the front cover and than the timing chain guides. their is so much more than just taking out the head botls

James1486

we removed the bolts on the front cover that go into the head we didn't completely remove it, and we removed the timing chain guids

8111870a

Is your exhaust manifold unbolted from the mid pipe?

James1486

yup we unbolted those as well...

Stevo86

I would take the front cover off completely and also check to be sure there is nothing still attached to the read of the head. Ford likes to put stuff there.

school boy

Can you get us a pic or two?