I have been researching this the boards for this, and have found some great descriptions, of how best unstick them as well as referenced to photos of the ports .

but the only write up with photos i have foudn was a reference to a writeup on brownmound.com whichis currently offline.

is there a write up, with photos preferably, somewhere else?

 

are you sure the aux port sleeves are sticking ?

 

well fairly. I can reach down and push them and they dont move... so i am thinking they're stuck?

 

unhook the actuators and see if you can rotate them...if not, try tapping them with something. only thing is you might break a big piece of carbon loose and suck it into the engine and foul your plugs :[

actually if you can to be on the safe side just remove the lower intake manifold from the engine...the SE motor doesn't have coolant ports so it shouldn't be too big of a task.