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Old 09-28-2011, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by steve(ill)
im not sure you can get to all the bolts without taking the manifold off. seems like i looked with a mirror and couple were not accessable. look at the cross over in the photo above... 3 small bolts on that side.
Hi All. I just did one of these for the same problem. I thought for a while before I pulled the intake (because of that one bolt that you cant reach) and came up with a little shortcut. You can see the bolt from the top (bottom of the bolt, not the head of it) so I drilled a small hole in it and then tapped in a T10 torx. I got the bolt to back out and back in with the torx driver. The vehicle hasnt had any problems so far (10,000 kms or so). Worse case senario was that the intake would have to come off anyways so I thought I would try it and it did work. Just thought I'd share. Good luck to all with this repair.