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Old Apr 7, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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Thanks for the advice!!! I know that sound like a really stupid question though!
Make sure you hold on to that heat shield in case you ever need to put your stock manifold back on. I didn't have a socket extender for the first O2 sensor and had to cut it off to get to it! I felt pretty stupid after that and called the dealer for a replacement, and they quoted me at $85 for a freaking UGLY ___ piece of aluminum. So lame...
shouldn't you take the O2 sensor off after you take the manifold out? Anyways just use wd40 if you have some trouble, I only used that for the O2 sensors though!
Check my post again, I didn't have the socket extender to take the O2 sensor out of the manifold. Without taking it off, the heat shield would not come off because it was hitting the bottom of the O2 sensor's reader body. So to even get to the stock manifold bolts, I had to do something with the heat shield which unfortunately meant cutting it off with aviary snips and a lot of prying.
UMMMMM....

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to take the heat sheild off with the o2 sensor still in the header all you do is un plug it and feed the wire through the hole
That's what I did!

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Old Apr 7, 2005 | 09:02 PM
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hahaha this tread is funny
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Old Apr 7, 2005 | 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by TCguy8
Thanks for the advice!!! I know that sound like a really stupid question though!
Make sure you hold on to that heat shield in case you ever need to put your stock manifold back on. I didn't have a socket extender for the first O2 sensor and had to cut it off to get to it! I felt pretty stupid after that and called the dealer for a replacement, and they quoted me at $85 for a freaking UGLY ___ piece of aluminum. So lame...
shouldn't you take the O2 sensor off after you take the manifold out? Anyways just use wd40 if you have some trouble, I only used that for the O2 sensors though!
Check my post again, I didn't have the socket extender to take the O2 sensor out of the manifold. Without taking it off, the heat shield would not come off because it was hitting the bottom of the O2 sensor's reader body. So to even get to the stock manifold bolts, I had to do something with the heat shield which unfortunately meant cutting it off with aviary snips and a lot of prying.
UMMMMM....

Originally Posted by falcon 9094
to take the heat sheild off with the o2 sensor still in the header all you do is un plug it and feed the wire through the hole
That's what I did!

Originally Posted by Giravani
LOL you aren't listening to what I'm saying here. Even if I fed the wire through the hole, the hard plastic body of the O2 sensor would still be sticking out through the heatshield, right? I tried everything I could think of to wriggle the heatshield off of the top bolts and out and around the O2 sensor, but it the lip of cutout into the heatshield around the sensor kept hitting the plastic body of the O2 sensor, making it impossibe to remove. So since simply taking it right off wasn't an option, I looked around for a socket extender so I could take the sensor out all the way and just lift the heatshield right out, but no dice, I didn't have one. So I cut the heatshield and just got it over with.

NOTE: I have seen two versions of that heatshield... one where the bolts connect to the actual engine chassis, and the other where the bolts bolt directly into the header. I got the second version, so getting it up and off of that last top bolt sticking out of the headers was impossible without somehow getting around that O2 sensor.

Moral of the story, make sure you have all the tools necessary before going into something like this.
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Old Apr 7, 2005 | 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Giravani
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Originally Posted by TCguy8
Thanks for the advice!!! I know that sound like a really stupid question though!
Make sure you hold on to that heat shield in case you ever need to put your stock manifold back on. I didn't have a socket extender for the first O2 sensor and had to cut it off to get to it! I felt pretty stupid after that and called the dealer for a replacement, and they quoted me at $85 for a freaking UGLY ___ piece of aluminum. So lame...
shouldn't you take the O2 sensor off after you take the manifold out? Anyways just use wd40 if you have some trouble, I only used that for the O2 sensors though!
Check my post again, I didn't have the socket extender to take the O2 sensor out of the manifold. Without taking it off, the heat shield would not come off because it was hitting the bottom of the O2 sensor's reader body. So to even get to the stock manifold bolts, I had to do something with the heat shield which unfortunately meant cutting it off with aviary snips and a lot of prying.
UMMMMM....

Originally Posted by falcon 9094
to take the heat sheild off with the o2 sensor still in the header all you do is un plug it and feed the wire through the hole
That's what I did!

Originally Posted by Giravani
LOL you aren't listening to what I'm saying here. Even if I fed the wire through the hole, the hard plastic body of the O2 sensor would still be sticking out through the heatshield, right? I tried everything I could think of to wriggle the heatshield off of the top bolts and out and around the O2 sensor, but it the lip of cutout into the heatshield around the sensor kept hitting the plastic body of the O2 sensor, making it impossibe to remove. So since simply taking it right off wasn't an option, I looked around for a socket extender so I could take the sensor out all the way and just lift the heatshield right out, but no dice, I didn't have one. So I cut the heatshield and just got it over with.

NOTE: I have seen two versions of that heatshield... one where the bolts connect to the actual engine chassis, and the other where the bolts bolt directly into the header. I got the second version, so getting it up and off of that last top bolt sticking out of the headers was impossible without somehow getting around that O2 sensor.

Moral of the story, make sure you have all the tools necessary before going into something like this.
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Originally Posted by Giravani
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I actually had the same problem too, but the solution is to unscrew the bolts from the header. The bolts are in themselves screws that screw into the header, so you can unscrew them and VOILA!

It's ok though, everyone makes mistakes, it took me a lil bit to figure out to take the bolt out of the header
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Old Apr 11, 2005 | 01:22 AM
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industrial strength PB Blaster!!!!!!! i believe you could shove a softball through a keyhole with this stuff!!!!
PB Blaster is the best! Nice to know someone else feels the same!
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