Butterfly Assembly Disassembly

[WakaShoMan]

I have a spare intake all set to send to www.KeystonePowdercoating.com but I have a problem.

I need to take the butterflies apart before I send 'em in, but no matter what I do I can not get the phillips head screws that hold the assemblies to budge!

I have tried a phillips screwdriver, as well as an impact wrench and no-go. Those suckers are on there tight.

Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong here? Or are the screws held tight with some sort of super glue?

 

[SHOnuff93]

they are just in there really tight. To get mine apart i put a pair of vice grips on a screw driver for leverage and then pushed really hard and twisted, and i had no problems, i have done 4 sets this way without a stripped screw

 

[WakaShoMan]

SHOnuff93:
they are just in there really tight. To get mine apart i put a pair of vice grips on a screw driver for leverage and then pushed really hard and twisted, and i had no problems, i have done 4 sets this way without a stripped screw

Thanks! I read your post then went to the grage to try the vise-grip method. It ShoNuff worked!

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