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A shop manual is a good thing to use as a reference, there are way too many steps to do a good step by step, so the book is a good reference, I used it myself first time though for most of it. There are some things that are actually done through the wheel well, so the wheel comes off, the plastic splash shield comes off, and a good quality harmonic balancer is needed to get the crank pulley off. A lot of work gets done on top, like loosening the AC and power steering, alternator belt, and underneath a jack to hold lift the engine up when the motor mount in the passenger fender is loosened, plastic covers removed, but, in order to get the giant metal bracket that covers the engine side of the bottom plastic cover off, remove the cam sprockets to get it out of there a ton more easier than fighting it for hours. It has to come out to get the bottom cover off so you can actually see the timing marks.