Today, I worked on getting the lid off. Drained the sc coolant (mostly), worked the hoses out of the way, unbolted the lid bolts (back are a $#!!, did it without dropping the cradle), and took off the lid.
Even with catch cans, some oil still made it in:
This is with over 15k miles...
Cleaned the oil out of the lid and prepped it for install:
Cleaned out the big blotches of oil and covered the lower manifold until the new sc gets here:
when the new sc gets here, I'll take off the remaining items (coils, injector right-side connectors, throttle body, lower manifold bolts, etc!)
-Don