ssgunny

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Anything I should be concerned about in doing this? I am going to remove and send off to get ported and polished. I have the lid off and disconnected the throttle cable, electrical connections along with what looks like a vacuum hose connection. It looks like coolant is run through the bottom of it. I guess there will be a little fluid loss when disconnecting these connections? Do you plug these lines to prevent any further fluid from draining? Also I only see three bolts holding it on to the intake?

Tainted

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yup yup. a little coolant will run out, but thats fine. jsut top it off when you put it back on. you can actually bypass it gonig through the TB by connecting those 2 hoses. thats the TB bypass mod. the coolant runs through it in cold starts to keep the blade from freezing shut in very cold climate areas.

ssgunny

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Thanks and I guess I will break out the towels then. BTW to reinstall the TB what are the torque specs on the bolts?

Tainted

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hang on i'll grab'em for you. I never torqued them, I jsut got them good n tight and I was fine.

Tainted

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106 lb in

note INCHES

ssgunny

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Thanks Tainted. As easy as the bolts came out I would say it doesn't take much.

Well it is off. I actually took everything off the TB except the coolant lines and then removed the TB. Once it was free I took the left coolant (as in facing the front of the car) line off first and then angled the free end of the line and TB skyward. I doubt if I loss much fluid at all. It took forever to get the right line off but then pointed it skyward. I guess I loss the coolant that was in the TB and that was it. Okay I guess it was not that big of a deal but didn't want to get coolant everywhere. I stuffed a rag in to the front of the intake manifold and called it a night.

Tainted

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may wanna put some masking tape over it instead

Fb0dy0nly

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the little bit of coolant you would lose isnt going to hurt, I just replaced new valley cover and intake and lost quite a bit from killing my vaccum seals and from all the hoses and after I started it and checked the levels, it still wasnt low at all. I do need to add a bit more for mental insurance tho.
+1 for the masking tape.

ssgunny

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Why not a towel? I loosely closed off the intake with it and didn't force it in too far.

staringback05

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towels have fibers that come off....just always that idea that maybe fibers might mess with a sensor...i dunno, i just stick a shop rag in it....so that tells you that much

Bad Blue WS6

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your not going to loose a vast amount,,,you can plug off the opening with a cap,,,,just do a quick TB coolant bypass,,leave the caps on there and you wont have to worry about it at all

HotWS6

Just did this last weekend, just follow the steps above and you're good to go!

ssgunny

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Thanks for your input. Since the towel is "all up in it" I won't disturb it. Next time when sealing of areas that lead in to the motor I will use tape.