Check out the pictures in the first post of my thread linked here and you’ll see it apart
Finally started my desmog. Updated with baseline vacuum routing drawings
They do separate, it’s similar to a compression fitting. But if you can’t separate them why not just rotate the piece out of the head, and remove it with the rail? Id blow a little compressed air around it first though, to clean any debris away from the head where it might fall in.
It looks...
I knew the timing gear had the rubber damper that can fail but I didn’t know the same material is used in the HB. One more thing to research....thanks for the new knowledge.