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Originally Posted by headfirst427
Hate to breathe life into an old post, but I am in the middle of removing my intake manifold (1995 Zenki, KA24DE) and it is a major PITA. I've looked everywhere for answers, but this post had the most relevant info for me. Just wanna know how your experience turned out Ron? Ive tried the double nut method, but I cant get a wrench in between the plenum and the valve cover area, so thats proven useless. I am attempting to pull the studs that bolt up the intake plenum to the head, and plan to replace these with bolts of the same thread pitch. Ive got the entire intake manifld loose and wiggling pretty freely, but can't get it out of the engine bay to save my life. I gave up after a lot of work today, but just wondering what the hell Im doing wrong. My engine bay is entirely too dirty, so I'm systematically going through and replacing gaskets, cleaning the block, freeing up wiring, etc until I'm happy. Please help me out, need this intake OUT!
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It's actually not too hard with a long-extension and a wobble-head adapter.
What I did was (after getting all of the things out of the way) was to just pull out the 2 studs that I will show you right now. Once those studs where out, and the upper manifold portion was unbolted from the block it just slid out easily. Replace the studs with some m8x1.25 bolts to make it easier next time. The upper portion will probably be a little hard to pull out at first because of the gasket getting stuck, but just be patient. The biggest pain will be pulling out the PCV connection there, and the coolant hose that goes from the bottom of the manifold to the top. But it's perfectly doable.
Pull out these:
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