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hey guys, i'm takin off the head off my b18a1.

everything is out, head bolts are out (broke two 14mm 1/2drive crasftsman sockets on them) is the intake manifold bolted to the block anywhere? it doesn't want to come off, i can lift it off the block a little tiny bit, but its still caught on something... i still don't see why it isn't easier to unbolt the intake manifold from the head, rather than bring out the intake and head at the same time...

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it's not bolted to the block anywhere, at least not on mine ;) i'm not trying to insult your intelligence or any thing, but did you disconnect all of your sensors, vaccuum lines etc.? :-[

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rofl, no i havent' disconnected ALL of them yet, but the ------- manifold is bolted to the block. and its way in the way. you have to be a jap to get your hands back there.

if only the vacuum lines were still on don't you think i could move it a little more up and down than 5mm.

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so all head bolts are out. all sensors/wires/lines removed from in. manifold. did u remove the actual intake tube? it has a support bracket bolted to the frame (some do).

maybe the intake manni has a support bracket on the block, get it from underneath?

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yeah there was some bullshit bracket way in the back, i got the entire head and intake off. everything looks perfect, head, valves, cyclinder walls, pistons look good but they have some doinks in them but i guess that is normal.

but there was a peice of metal in the #4 cyclinder as i had expected. it puts some doinks in the piston, really small doinks... the peice is about as big as a .177 caliber bb

maybe a little smaller. it doesn't look like it get into the rings or even scrated the cyclinder walls. but the car sure ran shitty when it bounced around.

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could you define "doink" ;)

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i wouldnt be surprised if it messed up the head or valves as well

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the pistons are alright, the valves need regrind. thats about it.

by doinks i mean, little craters about 1/2 the size of a .177 caliber bb, which is the normal sized bb. like if you took a peice of clay and pushed a bb into it and covered about 1/4the of the bb, thats a doink :)

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i was just ------ with you ;D