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Hi Chaps,
I've worked on TR7s for many years, but find as I get older I'm forgetting things (not just TR7 orientated) I'm trying to remove a standard inlet manifold from a standard 2.0 engine, six 13mm bolts, but I just can't see how to get one of the bolts out, its the lower one between the inlet ducts and I just can't remember how I've done it previously. I can just get a ring spanner on but it can't move as space is so tight.

Can anyone give me any pointers? as its starting to do my head in!!

Thanks, Dave

I always use a swivel socket on a 6" extension. A tight fit but it works.

Edward Hamer
Petaluma CA

To start with the bolts are UNC 5/16" (1/2" AF) not metric!

I think you are referring to the bolt between inlet #1 and the coolant connection?
If so I use this selection of tools to get at it A special 1/2" ring spanner to loosen and tighten the bolt ...



And a small 13mm socket with an UJ and an extension to remove and fit the bolt ...

Dave Dyer wrote:Hi Chaps,
...........as I get older I'm forgetting things (not just TR7 orientated).............Thanks, Dave

I get the same feeling when I revisit something I tackled years ago, heater removal or auto brake shoes adjuster etc. if you don't repeat at frequent intervals it gets lost.

If you think of your memory as a USB stick, there is only so much stuff you can keep on it. Once it's full, something has to drop off to allow new stuff to be stored. You're not forgetting things, just becoming more selective. That's my excuse

Yes thats the little bolt.

Yea bad habit I always use13mm when as you say it should be the slightly smaller 1/2 AF. But thanks for the replies. Beans you certainly have all the right equipment, I'm sure thats not the first time you've heard that!

I need to source some better tools and have another go.

Busheytrader, your reply was good, I'm with you on that and I must try and remember to use that in future when the wife moans at me, although remembering all that will push more sfuff out! Oh well you can't have everything, but slightly more hair and better eyesight would be nice lol

Dave

Re memory: There is a medical school of thought that everything you've experienced, knew is in your brain, only the pathway to it gets lost. I'm sure we've all experienced it, like trying to remember the last name of an old friend you haven't seen on decades but you can't for the life of you, then when reminded of it you say "Yah, I remember that now" even recalling the first time you were introduced or met.

Is that like recovering a long list "Zip" file? That's my techie knowledge exhausted.....

That bolt was slotted from the factory to allow it to be undone with a screwdriver. However over time these will have been replace. The method Theo shows with a socket and UJ is the one I resort too, especially if you have a smaller 1/4 drive set.

I used the socket with universal to remove, then re-install the new manifold.

No big problem done that way.

Larry

Thanks Chaps,

Now sorted. I had to buy a UJ for my 1/4 socket set, it made it so much easier. You think you have all the right tools , but its jobs like these you realise you don't!

Dave