OK so I pretty much have removed the head... it took me about 4 hours. The only thing in my way is the temperature probe which is frozen inside it's housing on the head. Thanks to the previous mechanic the nut is pretty much stripped. I guess I'm just going to have to cut it off and buy a new one :-( I hosed it down with wd-40 and I if can't get it to budge tomorrow I may try some heat before giving up on it completely.

Oh and I found out why I thought I needed to remove the distibutor which is in this picture.

I can get the head off but I will not beable to lower the new head into place with this in the way. Since I now have a number of old bolts I was planning on grinding of the heads of two long bolts to use as guides when placing the new head.

Anyway thanks for everybodies help!

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