Thank u for the write up your a better man than me for caring about the next man.. Disconnecting the egr pipe from manifold is extremely difficult to get to the flange bolts that disconnect the headers from the exaust u need like 3 extensions and the stock headers are seperated into three unlike the bbk shorty headers (in my case) are one piece so the oil dipstick is impossible to get in i stopped here and im getting professional advice tomorrow my idea is to take out the dipstick cut the dipstick sheath install the headers then put the peices together and deal with it later.. Other than that the write up was great it definitely gave me motivation foresight and courage for what turned out to be the most frustrating mechanic work ive taken on so far.. Cheers ..happy wrenching

Use blue tissue paper, two sheets.

How do I replace the downstream driver side cable? It's cut for some reason. Thanks.

What grain sand paper you use?