OK we got the job done.

Could be we didn't have to remove the radiator, but we had to do the oil cooler lines anyway, so that's OK.

We removed the fan and fan pully and rotated the engine to see the pigtail bolt from the balancer cutout. Pigtail.jpg shows that view.

That balancer was still massively in the way for our standard socket and breaker bar. To actually get a socket on the pigtail bolt, we used an electric grinder to grind a socket to be as shallow as we could get away with while still grabbing the bolt fully. That's socket-bar-to-remove-pigtail.jpg

We put the socket on the bolt but still couldn't get the breaker bar onto the socket. So, we grinded the breaker bar down: breaker-only.jpg

Finally we removed the pigtail bolt.

To slide the bracket off we still had to remove the turbo oil return metal tube from the turbo. That tube was blocking the bracket from sliding off the studs on the back.

We also had to remove a bracket attaching an AC cooler hose (I think that's what it was) to the oil pan: ac-hose-bracket-removal.jpg

Final result was bracket-removed.jpg

Installation was reverse of removal. :-)

-John

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