need help with pulling a honda head

[Heath Knox]

I’m pulling the head on my 98 civic 1.6l because of a dead cylinder with valve issues.

This is my question I am having trouble getting to the last two intake bolts there just isn’t much room. Should i pull intake with the head or keep trying to get on those nuts?

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[Heath Knox]

could not get center nut so pulled intake on head. Thanks. wasn’t heavy at all I just really think its going to be a pain in the butt to replace with intake on

[college man]

get somebody to help you lift the head and intake off and on.C8-)

[RJHTUNER]

IF YOU CANT UNBOLT IT I WOULD SAY GO AHEAD AND PULL IT OFF WITH HEAD JUST WILL BE A LITTLE HEAVIER

[EricTheCarGuy]

It’s much easier to access those fasteners from under the engine, it also might help to remove the brace on the back of the intake as well as the oil filter to get to them.

[Heath Knox]

I tried from all angles, above, below, from the side even tried standing on my head. I did try pulling that bracket but the lower bolts proved to be very stubborn. now that everything was off I was able to remove the intake bracket so it will be off when I put engine back together. thanks for all the help.

[EricTheCarGuy]

It can be a bit tight, a 1/4 is your best friend or a gearwrench. The key is getting that lower brace out of the way in my opinion, in fact that’s the first thing I do when I get under it because I think that’s the hardest part of the job and I like to get the hard stuff out of the way first when doing a job like that.

[Heath Knox]

rust was the factor here. When I went after the bolts that held the bracket the the bolts went on a diet losing several waist sizes. So actually by removing the intake with the head gave me the room to attack the bolts and get them off without to much difficulty.

Thanks again because You have helped by saying to remove the oil filter and that really opened up some space. I don’t think I would have thought of that.

This is whats great about picking someone’s brain that has done work on something that you might not be familiar with. Having many years of experience working on cars I could count on one hand how many honda’s I worked on and nothing to this extent.

Thanks again!

[EricTheCarGuy]

I’m with you man and that was the driving force behind making this forum in the first place, I don’t know anyone that knows everything but get enough people working together and you can solve a LOT of problems.

Glad you got it sorted out my friend, thanks for signing up and using the forum as this stuff goes into the database and will eventually help others with similar issues.

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