im trying to remove the cylinder head on my 98 neon. ive removed everything from the engine including all the head bolts. tried to pry the head off and i get about 1/8 clearence between the head and block. the damn thing is stuck. are there any hidden bolts that could be holding the head on? please help me !!

 

did you remove the bolts that the coil pack bracket mounts over?

 

coil pack mounts to the valve cover...

did you remove the timing cover and everything inside.....if not then it might be getting stuck on the inner cover, one of the pulleys need to be removed and there are a few small bolts in there....it is common to over look these....

 

did u take out the cams ive done this a couple if time on my car its a pain ur have to remove everthing from the top have of the motor and i mean everything dont try to cheat ur way out it wont work fi everything is remover u should be able to nock it loose with a bar

 

in order for the head bolts to be removed(which he said he did) the cam(s) need to be removed first....

 

And spud i know the coil pack mounts to the valve cover but the bolt that it mounts to goes throught the valve cover too doesnt it

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the cam shafts are still on the head. do i need to remove the cams to pull the head off?

i shredded my timing belt, so i removed everthing on the left side of the engine;timing belt cover,both inner and outer, cam gear, idler bracket and the dampner. also removed exhaust and intake manifolds .

 

if you would have left the exhaust manifold on u could of jacked the cat up a little bit and it would of popped the head off after undoing everything

 

i tried doing that, but with engine mount removed all it did was jack the engine up.

 

ok im lost here.....the head bolts were removed, but the cam(s) are still in there????
im goin to assume that its a sohc......maybe the sohc is different that what im thinking and you dont need to take the cams out to get the head bolts off...but i thought you did[&:]

and yes the coilpack mount bolt goes into the valve cover..then into the head....but in order to have the head bolts off, the valve cover(and all bolts) would have to of been removed