Wooooohoooo! Eureka! The Lucifer bolt is out!!! A big shout to Axgordon for his guidance and encouragement- I was almost giving up and ready to have the X towed to my Indie. Thank you very much, sir.
This project is a P-I-T-A and not for the faint hearted. On a difficulty scale of 1 to 10, I'd rate it 10+. To me this project seems like a very challenging video game with traps everywhere blocking you from proceeding to the next level. The initial levels are easy and just when you think you're almost done, trap! And thereafter it's trap after trap! It's as if the designers of this engine deliberately made things very difficult to access and tricking you along the way
I heeded Axgordon's advice to lift the engine from the top and remove the
front driveshaft and unbolt the front differential. Then use two
pry bars and slightly pry the differential out about 1/2 inch. I was then able to rotate the diff clockwise and get that Lucifer bolt out. What a pain! And for good measure, I had to use an "S" wrench since regular wrenches wouldn't fit. All these additional steps just to remove that one bolt! Trust me, there's no other way as evidenced in the picts of that bloody bolt location in my earlier post. TIS and Bentley are deafeningly silent about the alternator bracket.
Here're a few additional picts.