If you decide to remove the hood / bonnet to do this job then you need to have a really good place to support it and not scratch the outer paint job. As said above you don't really need to remove this body part from the car to do the job but it does mean you don't have to clean all the muck you might leave behind in the engine bay. (Obviously covering the engine bay with an old blanket will catch a lot of it - but think of the paint work on the wings / fenders whilst you are rubbing yourself up against them!)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
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