The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

After doing a good bit of work on my intake system, I've decided to state some points of the intake that are a pain in the ass.

Tough stuff:

1- getting the 5th and 6th port sleeves to stay on the lil actuator arms sticking out of the lower manifold, while you push it up against the block. And trying to believe that they actually stayed on.

2- getting that lil spacer back in that goes between the air pump brackets. (I almost gave up)

3- should have been number one but; getting all of the cooked on gaskets off. And not letting any of the gasket poop get into the motor.

4- getting all of the hoses back on after the temperature drops to 10 degrees, and the hoses get hard like rocks.

5- screwing the oil injectors back in. They were kinda hard to get out too.

6- finding the parts you dropped inside a garage with a gravel floor (a lot of time wasted here)

did I mention getting the gaskets off!!!


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Re: The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

Yeah scrapping gaskets sucks.. I have done it many times. I imagine it must really suck in the freezing cold.

Spacer on the airpump??? Don't take the air pump off that way anymore. There are three bolts that hold the bracket to the engine. Take those three bolts out and the adjusting bolt in the lower bracket. The spacer will stay with the airpump and bracket.

Didn't realize that :( . I have the mazdatrix strut brace and it has a triangle plate that must bolt onto those same bolts, but it also covers up the assembly behind it. So I really couldn't tell that the bracket could be removed :( . Well next time, you better believe I will do it that way. That spacer seemed to grow to almost twice its size when I tried to put it back in. :D

Re: The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

hehe...I know what you mean man...I've had problems with each of those issues before, except for the garage with a gravel floor bit.

Re: The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

Stuff paper towels in the ports before you start scraping. Lucky for me I have an air compressor and a pneumatic gasket remover tool :)

How does a pneumatic gasket remover work?

Fancy name for an air grinder with a special rubber wheel :)

Re: The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

Next time, you can insert the actuator arms in AFTER slapping on the lower mani. They only go in a certain way so they's no mistake unless the sleeves were put in wrong to begin with.

I used gasketcinch with good result, easy to apply, and easy to come off when you need to de-install; highly recommended by major racing teams.

Re: Re: The tricky parts of the intake manifold!
 

I was talking about the arms that stick out of the other side of the manifold that actually attach to the sleeves. They have a groove that has to wrap around the lil pins on the sleeves. This needs to be done before you bolt up the manifold. I wish it was that easy.

:)