From Chilton.....

Remove the engine. (NICE!!)
For additional information, refer to intake manifold. See: Intake Manifold
Remove the cables from the spark plugs. The cables should be removed by holding the boot portion.
Remove the ignition coil.

Remove the upper and lower timing belt cover.

Remove the timing belt and camshaft sprockets.
Remove the heat protector and exhaust manifold assembly.
Remove the coolant pump pulley and head cover.
Remove the intake and exhaust camshaft.

Remove the cylinder head assembly. The cylinder head bolts should be removed using the 12 mm socket, in two or three steps.
Clean the gasket pieces from the cylinder block top surface and cylinder head bottom surface. NOTE: Make sure that fragments from the gasket do not fall in the engine.

What? We have to remove the engine to do this? What?

That wouldn't be so uncommon for a FWD car.

Cheap to buy expensive to fix.

They gotta steal your money somehow!

I'm sure you can do it without removing the engine, but it's probably a million times easier to do it out of the car.

I know with my GF's 1998 mercury mystique you have to drop the motor to get the rear head off, no space to work, you can bearly change the spark plugs.


Guess what's wrong with my gf's car? Ya i'm not going to fix it and she doesn't have the money to have it fixed. Anyone want to buy a 1998 mercury mystique lol

Pick a Parts will take it!

Ya and give me 400$ the car blue books for 2.6k and I was asking 1200 would take 1000. I thought 50% off was a good deal for someone that wanted to flip it. But no takers yet. Grr I hate fwd cars

Throw a GPS in it. I got an email at work, a GPS unit's battery exploded and burnt the interior of the car up. I'm sure it would total out the thing.