theres a vacuum hose sticky in the 4th gen general section. yah i know the feeling, i even took pictures before and still sorta felt like it wasnt right till it started.

 

So right when I think I'm about to make some nice strides, the project just proceeds to bite me in the face. Again.

I figured out where the long stud needed to go, as it's needed for the alternator mounting bracket. Well I was trying to torque it down, and the (brand new Craftsman) torque wrench wasn't clicking. I had the same problem the other night too, the handle turns before the head clicks. Well I was torquing it down, then snap!, the fricking stud sheared off. So now I have to take the whole intake manifold back out so I can get what's left of that stud out. And I need to find a replacement somewhere.

 

call the longest running gm dealer in your area see if they got one. other than that parts store should have one that will work. so you use the pencil method to line up the intake when installing. before you add the rvt/gasket maker set the intake in there and stick four pieces of pencil in four of the outer center holes for easy access. need to mark them so you dont cut them off to short, then it would be hard to remove em after your done. anyways once there in, gota trim the edges just a tad and thread them in, not to far but far enough that they wont be knocked out when you set the intake on em. once in place mark the pencils just above the intake level so you can get some small plyers on em to get em out. the idea is the get the pieces in to guide the inake into position the first time and do it correctly so you dont mess up the end seals, its also nice to be able to set the intake on em right before lowering and making sure its all good to go. set it back on there once the pencils are in place to make sure it will go on without problems. if there to long it wont go on. anyways thats how i been doin it.

 

Got a new PCV valve and vacuum hose to hook it up with, and I got the intake manifold back out and removed the stud. Now the challenge will be to find a replacement stud. Hopefully a GM dealer can hook me up with that.

 

Daam looks like a fun and challenging project!

 

So I haven't been able to do anything until I get that replacement bolt in the mail. I was wondering what was taking so long, and today when I checked the tracking information, I figured it out: it got mailed to my house in Wisconsin . Parents are going to send it out in express mail for me so I can have it by this weekend.



In other news, my home address in PayPal has been changed

 

**** my life. Broke off another bolt when installing the intake manifold.

 

I'm a ****ing idiot. the torque spec is 71 in-lbs, not ft-lbs. **** my life.

 

oh man ive done that before. crab so now you gotta do it all over again. your gona be pretty good at intakes before this is done. did you get extra bolts,,, sometimes the dealer will make you by the set.

 

And that ain't all.....
The torque sequence is 71 in. lbs. on the first pass, and then 35 ft. lbs. on the second pass.
If you don't have an in. lbs. torque wrench, you can torque the bolts to 15 ft. lbs. on the first pass.
Oops......you're lucky you didn't snap an ear off the intake manifold.