[urq] Damn intake manifold

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Hmm.  Not anywhere near my Urq (in NC this week), but possibly you  
could use an easy-out bolt out from Craftsman? Not the one's you  
drill, but rather the ones that go over the bolt or nut or stud.

HTH

Ingo

On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Thatcher Hubbard wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
>   In the neverending process of trying to EFI my car, I've hit the
> 8000th of 30,000,000 snags.  Two days before moving to Seattle, I
> finally got my entire system wired and was quite close to test firing
> the car when...I discovered that there is no way to get the stock
> throttle body back onto the IM with a fuel rail in place.  Some people
> say it should be close, and they may be using different stuff, but it
> is not.  I would have to shave a minimum of 1" of height off of the
> injector + fuel rail combination to get it to clear.
>
>   My solution rather was to get another IM that puts the throttle body
> in a different place, like facing outwards toward the fender well.
> Having obtained one of those, and a throttle body that will not only
> bolt up but accepts my throttle position sensor, I'm close again.
>
>   The problem now is the existing IM.  I've gotten 5 of the 8 bolts
> off with it in the car, they weren't even that bad.  But the bolts
> (which you would think would be hardened) are easy to spin out of, and
> I've done that on two of them, and they are quite shallow, so they are
> essentially useless.  There is not enough room to get a hammer in
> there and drive an oversized 7mm hex in there, so it looks to me like
> I will have to take the head off (and waste a new set of OEM head
> bolts that had a mere 200 miles on them, not to mention a new head
> gasket) to get these final bolts.  And, as anyone here knows, getting
> the head off these is a very involved affair.  So this is a call for
> anyone with a creative idea on how to get these damn bolts out without
> taking the head off.  There is not enough room to get a drill down
> there, and you can't see the bolt heads without using a mirror anyway,
> so even if there was, that would seem to be a poor idea.
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