Re: Throttle Body Hell

[Josh Clark <joshc@garden.net>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:31:25 -0600 Ryan Bailey 
<RBAILEY.ORE-IDA.WNET.COM@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> I just got inside from the garage after about 5 hours of trying 
> to get that damn throttle body off!  I went to the salvage yard and got 
> a throttle body from a 85 Golf and a dual outlet manifold from an Mk1 
> scirocco.  So I cleaned it up earlier this week and cut and did all of 
> the work to get it ready to "bolt on" today.  I went and got a 6mm allen 
> socket and came home expecting to be done putting the new throttle body 
> by tonight.  Ya right, and tommorow I will win the lottery.  I put the 
> liquid wrench on the bolts and waited, this is while the engine is still 
> warm tapped them with a hammer and went to take them off and all hell 
> breaks loose.  
> 	First of all mine would not budge. So I put more liquid wrench 
> on them and waited, still won't move. I finally made a breaker bar 
> (actually my old bike shocks, that's another story) and got three of the 
> bolts loose.  Yessss looks I will have it done by tonight, or so I 
> think.  The very last one, the bottom one nearest the front, decides 
> that it wants to strip.  This is where I become furious.  I tried 
> everything you would think of, and not think of, to get this thing off. 
>  I tried fabricating tools to get this off and still no way Jose.  Now 
> it is late and dark and my car is half in the garage waiting to be 
> pushed in and I am pissed.  Not only that but I think I broke my finger 
> too while using the hammer, don't even ask how I managed to this.
> 	Now I don't know what I will do, this is because I am very 
> tired. I was thinking that maybe tommorow I will wake up with an idea of 
> how to get that bolt out.  If you have any ideas of how to get this dang 
> thing out please, please, please help me!  I am drowning here.  
> 
> 						Ryan Bailey

Grab a Dremel and cut cut cut!  Or just try to break the damn thing off with a 
crowbar or something.  Unless you're still using you're stock manifold.  I forgot 
about that.  Well, good luck!
 
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