Help Removing Intake Manifold - R32 Gtr

[Samuel Leonard]

i live in west beach SA and am having some trouble removing my intake manifold to get to a coolant leak. if anyone nearby has done this before and could lend a hand or any tips that would be sweet. i've resorted to cutting the hoses and i'll just have to replace them once it's off but even that is hard.

rb26 is still in the car so it makes it tight and hard to get to bolts underneath the iac valve and a hose or two that aren't co operating. i've already removed all the nuts holding the intake on and there's a fair bit of movement in the manifold now. i'm fairly confident it's the iac held onto the manifold and the hose or two that are joining the iac to the manifold that holds it back.

i'm a first year apprentice mechanic and would love a hand. don't have heaps of money at the moment sorry. could give you a 6 pack of heineken if you're interested! haha

life of a first year apprentice owning a GT-R!

i'll be persisting all day and may get it without help. i'll let you know. cheers

[NSNPWR]

You need some serious extension bars and knuckles to get at the 4 bolts holding the AAC to the bottom of the manifold and come it from underneath from...thats the easiest way to do it, unbolt the AAC valve with all the hoses attached...I was lucky enough to have a very skilled and cheap mechanic friend of mine take mine off...I did what I could but he did the rest and watching him attack it looked painful...lol.

Not an easy job.

[Samuel Leonard]

You need some serious extension bars and knuckles to get at the 4 bolts holding the AAC to the bottom of the manifold and come it from underneath from...thats the easiest way to do it, unbolt the AAC valve with all the hoses attached...I was lucky enough to have a very skilled and cheap mechanic friend of mine take mine off...I did what I could but he did the rest and watching him attack it looked painful...lol.

Not an easy job.

got a serious extension up there and a knuckle and the 12mm socket and there's shit in the way. i can't get the socket fully on the bolt and i'm getting angry. can't possibly get it from the top, can't get it from the bottom. i am in serious need of help from someone who's done it before! iac removal from the intake manifold

[mr 32]

you will need to remove a fewthings under the plenum for it to come off

there is the fuel hard line attached to the under side of the front of plenum

the aac and vac hoses, there is also 3 bolts on the under side of the acc chamber

along with that there is the 2 hard lines that the brake and clucth booster conect to

you will need to take these off to get the plenum off

best this to have is a 1/4 drive set and some ratchet spanners

also pull the fuel filter braket off and push the fuel filte rout of the way for more room

garb a copy of the workshop manual, it will help you