replace exhaust gasket? hard to do ? help

[Rico750]

Ok for a few days now i have this anoiing noise coming from under the hood.. it sounds like a hole in my exhaust but it is not. The same noise it made a few months ago when my turbo to cat gasket was blown because my cat bolts came loose.. now i can feel some exhaust gas escaping from the exhaust manifold area especially noticable when i rev the ropm's up.

So i ordered me a new exhaust gasket to get that replaced. Anyone en idea if that is soemthing i can do myselves or something i need to go see a mechanic for? im comfortable replacing that cat to turbo gasket in the past but for this long 4cyl exchaust manifold gasket it seemd that the turbo needs to be unbolted from that manifold and a bunch of nuts need to come off.. anyone here ever done that? any special tools? and maybe estimate of time?

Thanks so much!!!

Rico

[Bic-Ball]

i replaced the exact gasket a few weeks ago because of the same problem, when my nut fell off the opening the leak came from ruined the gasket so when i put a new nut on there was a hole letting exhaust out still.
take the air box out, remove the 3 cat to turbo nuts. the cat can be pucshed back to get off of the studs and the gasket can be replaced, it can be done in an hour. the turbo doesnt need to be removed.

[Rico750]

i replaced the exact gasket a few weeks ago because of the same problem, when my nut fell off the opening the leak came from ruined the gasket so when i put a new nut on there was a hole letting exhaust out still.
take the air box out, remove the 3 cat to turbo nuts. the cat can be pucshed back to get off of the studs and the gasket can be replaced, it can be done in an hour. the turbo doesnt need to be removed.

awesome ! you the man ! And do you know if you can reach all those nuts without any probs? thanks!