secondaries

[newshofan]

I'm wanting to remove the secondaries from the lower intake. Does anyone have a good way of doing this. I've had them wired for awhile but I figured I mise well try and remove them.

 

[SuperHO]

pull the upper and lower intake, disassemble the lower, drill out the screws for the butterflies, reinstall the rods, reassemble, reset idle, have fun.

 

[newshofan]

Everythings apart already due to my head rebuild. So its just a matter of pulling the buterflys out.

Thanks for answering my question I was wondering if I could pull them all out and then put the rods back in. So the springs and all on the end can come off?

Someone had told me Paul nimz had takin everything out and then used jb weld for the holes. Anyone done this too. Maybe Paul will chime in?

 

[SuperHO]

some have effectively done that, but I couldn't get a good enough seal and suffered a massive vacuum leak.

as for the rods-n-such, I took everything apart ecxept the rods....springs, brackets, small furry animals....it all went.

 

[newshofan]

I belive ill do the same and just leave the rods in. With the butterflys gone it makes it a lot easy to take a brush and clean them all out. I'm thinking of taking some chem dip and soaking the lower intake as well part of the upper.

Some of my injectors are covered in metal flakes because of the bent valves so I may soak them as well.

 

[Mr Anonymous]

You only need to plug the two holes on the end where the rods enter the lower intake. RTV, JB Weld, whatever you feel like using will be fine. Some people even tap the holes and put bolts in there.

There's absolutely no need to seal the holes in between ports, I've never been able to understand why people waste their time sealing them up.

 

[SHOZ123]

There are two holes on the bottom too where there were a steel balls inserted. Both on the passenger side.

 

[newshofan]

Some jb weld on the four holes and its all good then. The holes in the middle don't affect the way the air flows?

 

[illSHOyou]

Torch the butterfly screws with heat and just unscrew. You should not have to drill them out. Heat helps release them. I welded all my holes up at the machine shop and then took a striaght flute router bit w/bearing and clean all the ports out and sand to a finish...

 

[newshofan]

Well to late for the torch idea. I took a drill bit and drilled of the tops of the screws so I got the little disks out. But I'm going to have to take a smaller bit and drill the rest of the screw out because the rods won't slide out with the ends of the screws sticking out a bit.

Then I plan on taking some chem dip or some kerrosine or gas and soak the intake in. Id like it to be shiny clean then ill put the rods back in so I have no holes to worry about.

 

[illSHOyou]

Well to late for the torch idea. I took a drill bit and drilled of the tops of the screws so I got the little disks out. But I'm going to have to take a smaller bit and drill the rest of the screw out because the rods won't slide out with the ends of the screws sticking out a bit.

Then I plan on taking some chem dip or some kerrosine or gas and soak the intake in. Id like it to be shiny clean then ill put the rods back in so I have no holes to worry about.

You really want to avoid drilling them out at all cost. I believe the factory does have a form of thread fastener on the screws. The high heat allows everything to expand/thread sealant to release and then unscrew.

In your case get a drum sander in there and knock off the back side and slide out.

 

[newshofan]

What's so wrong with drilling them out again? I've already got them all drilled out. I tried pulling the rods out so I could clean everything a bit better but I had a hard time trying to get them out. So now I'm just going to soak it in some cleaner and have it all pollished up.

Also I've never soaked injectors before how's everyone do it?