Part 1: Engine dismantling

First...the before picture:

Now on to dismantling...  While dismantling, we found a few unexpected discrepancies.  For example, when taking off the exhaust manifold (step 1 of dismantling) we found one manifold clamp to be larger than the others and then a manifold clamp missing.  We suspect that a clamp was lost along the way and that one of the bottom row clamps was swapped into the top row.

The engine with the valve cover removed:

If you haven't noticed yet, Chris did all the heavy lifting.  In this picture, Chris is removing the engine head which is what we worked on next.