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Originally Posted by B58 parts
Good write up. I've only done it on the engine stand which is way easier. In the car I think it would be quite a mess. I just want to underscore how big of a mess this is. When you take that thing off a lot of stuff comes out. It's a way bigger mess than you'd expect.
Use a vacuum compressed air and a clean rag etc to clean the intake manifold port area as best you can before you take it off. A lot of dirt gets there and it's hard to clean off and it'll end up falling down into the port when you pull the thing off.
Also to clean the gasket surface off I just spray it with the gasket remover and it comes right off. You don't want to use the green Scotch brite there the dust is harmful. There's a really nice special tool grindstone you can use for gasket surfaces #83300495104
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Nice tips, I forgot to include that. I ran this post through chatgpt to clean up the formatting and it lost some detail. I added most back, but I think there was a section about the mess I forgot to rewrite. You are very right, it is a
MESS. You really need to be ready for it, I wasn't and my fresh garage floor pad is stained. Good tip with the intake manifold dirt, it does fall into the intakes. I sprayed compressed air and still had a few leaf pieces I had to fish out.