Now, I spent the day tearing down this motor and it took a while.
There is a LQ4 and LQ9 Service Manual that is floating around this forum that is good to refer to, but I'm going to show some of the steps here that I did as well that might help someone do this on their own as well.
If you screw up your motor it's not my fault, I'm just showing what I did & not telling anybody this is what they should do so "reader beware"!
Also, some of these steps will have associated pics, some won't --- so you need to figure it out.
1. I took off the rad hose to the water pump, there are 2 clips on the water pump to be removed, there is a small hose underneath as well & I took it off the nozzle behind the alternator.
Some of these hoses I just cut for speeding things up as I intend to replace them anyways.