ya I went to the NAPA down on Steele and 43rd I think it is and the lady behind the counter didn't know what an open end wrench was. Way to hire one, I might have understood if she was a college cheerleader of some kind but as it was it really didn't make for good business.
OK so here's what worked
no amount of grinding seemed to do me much good, I might have considered busting out the forge and anvil stuff but I I was out of gas so what worked was using the crows foot ( which I believe someone suggested and on one side I was able to get a 3/8 breaker ( small one ) on it, worked like a charm. On the other side I used the same crows foot but wedged it loose with a bar off the intake manifold. Sorta worked like a charm, basically no solution for reinstalling it tho.
If there is an online source for that wrench I'd sure appreciate it
I got the pump off tho and am working on cleaning the top of the engine before I install all the new stuff. Basically everything was/is filthy. Most of the nuts and fittings associated with this thing were pretty loose. I did notice the lines coming off the old pump were on pretty tight but not as tight as I might expect for something delivering that much pressure. I'm wondering if there is a torque specification on that stuff.
Speaking of which I should go read up on installing these injectors/lines/pump cause if there is any specific torque settings I'd kinda like to get that dealt with first time round. Assembly grease on anything? Or maybe a torque setting for the pump to drive gear?
I also got the whole mess out in one piece, kinda tricky but a lot easier to dissemble the pump/lines on the bench than under the hood. I can imagine some fool getting the lines mixed up, was kinda on my mind as I pulled the lines off the old pump and put them on the new one. Its ready to install but as I said I want to clean the engine some before I do.
Anyway the wrench thing is a whopping pain in the ass, I ground till I was blue in the face and pretty much destroyed several wrenches before I gave up. One I got to hot and it lost shape and the other I'm not sure why but it wasn't going to go no mater how thin I sliced it. If I'd had a bolt handy to put into the new injector I'd have been able to check and see what I was doing but its so hidden that working blind and not having an example just made it pretty much impossible. Old Henry Ford might have been turning in his grave at several moments in the process.