You are going to have to take off the bottom whichever way you decide to go, once you are in there, you can decide if your tooling is appropriate.....
Rocky
The ARP bolts I got from Lloyd at RBT needed a 12 pt. socket, and don't look like they were compatible with a crows-foot.
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