STEP 9
Removing your Intake manifold
Finally, there is a bracket that holds the egr solenoid valve that is attached to the rear head and the back of the intake manifold. you MUST remove the bolts that attachs it to the manifold. It is tricky, but perseverance will pay off. It is unnecassary to replace this bolt when reassembling the engine.
Now you can remove the Intake manifold, there are 8 bolts and 4 nuts attaching the manifold to the heads, after removing them put them in a baggy or box.
STEP 10
Removing the intake manifold from the engine bay
Make sure there is nothing holding the manifold down. You will need to carefully lift up on the manifold and prop a rag under a side of the runner. You now should have enought room to remove the Throttle body completly from the manifold.Just lay it aside. Once it is removed, proceed to remove the manifold and put it some where clean ( like a box or on a towel/rag)
You may want to stuff rags into the intake ports on the engine to keep debri from getting in them.
Now is a good time to inspect the intake valves, to see how bad carbon build up is. There should be None!.
Make sure to clean the surface of the intake ports.
STEP 11
Removing your Valve covers
The bolts you are about to remove are 10mm, You can take them off in any order. You also will need to remove the Wireing on the front of the front valve cover. Put all the bolts that went to this valve cover in a seperate baggy or box, also out your oil cap in the same baggy to help you remember with baggy is wich. Now you can remove the rear valve cover, and put the bolts to that in a seperate baggy.
Remove the gaskets to the valve covers, and clean out the inside of the valve covers with the brake cleaner, taking extra care to clean out the parts where the gaskets were.
If you plan to paint your valve covers and intake manifold, this is the best time to do it.
STEP 12
Cleaning where the gaskets matched on the head.
Use a razor blade to clean off the old gasket residue where the gaskets met on the head.This is a very important part, to insure you get a good seal.
NOW YOU CAN TAKE A BREAK!