Jumbogumbp

How long does it typicly take to strip down to the lim cause I have a fucked up idle and I decided to just replace all the gaskets and vacuum lines at one time. The cars almost 20 years old and it's all original so it's due for new **** anyways... what do you think total time would be to take apart and put together... I still have all emissions crap.. which I need to keep till after I get it smogged. I'm good with tools and I've ripped through an n/a before.

k-rok

i could probably get everything off in like 15 minutes now haha. i know what to do though. have fun banging the LIM with a hammer to get it off.

torean

if u really want to replace all hoses, then just start cuttin.......i'd say u'd be able to rip through the sucker in about an hour or two......putting things back is the fun part

Makenzie71

First time? Give yourself all day after lunch one saturday or something. My first time took me several hours just to get it all apart because it was all-original and I had to get to frustrated point of not caring about whether I break something or not to realize that beating the **** out of the intake assembly with a hammer to get it apart wasn't exactly a bad idea.

k-rok

^ word that was definitily me at the begining of the turbo project.

Jumbogumbp

lol... I kinda understand that.. had problems with a n/a lim I guess I need to kinda look for pictures of how to put it together cause my dumbass will surely forget which hose goes where.... I'm sure I can dig in fairly quick but... jobs that are supposed to take a few hours tend to take days... usually cause of one freakn bolt.... so you guys think at a normal pace I should be able to get it done in a weekend? maybe I should wait for thanksgiving concidering I have 9 days off... and I can't seem to get my n/a running... heres an odd off topic question... I drove my n/a 2 weeks ago... I parked it to drive my t2... then I go to drive the n/a and the thing won't start... I've got gas in it... I checked for flooding.. it turns over but it just kinda puffs for a second... like it's getting a week combustion... maybe thats just compressed air I'm hearing... I need to go back and check again.

k-rok

check for vac lines, TPS plugged in, check for spark, try to deflood it....im going through the same **** with my newly turbo'd N/A.

torean

true...if its your first time taking it apart give urself plenty of time.....first time it took me 5-6 hours....then it was 2 hours..then 30 minutes..then when i gotta take the UIM off cause of intake leak...i took the damn thing off 3 times in a day....

BlaCkPlaGUE

The NA LIM comes off super easy, it uses a metal gasket. The turbo one, for some totally fucked up reason, uses like a paper-ish gasket, at least the one that I saw did! what the **** is up with that? I mean no wonder people have to hammer that ******* thing off.

For the S4 NA, I could dissasemble and rebuild (with all gaskets etc) the intake assembly in like 4 hours of hard assed work. Its always going to take longer, especially when you have to scrape off old ******* gasket, add like triple your Estimated time for that ****..

torean

the time isnt in taking the thing off....the UIM came off with a slight tap.....cleaning off old gaskets took me the longest.....got gasket remover...didnt work....scraper didnt work....at the end it was a combo of the two with lots of time that finially got it right

Makenzie71

I've never seen a metal gasket used on an intake...dunno...

I've spent a lot of time chiping off that paper ****...done a lot of damage, too, trying to get it off. Found that, if you're feeling risky, and have an open deck planer, just set that bitch to 1/8" and remove that ******. I actually used my planer to remove 1/16 of metal from all the surfaces and lapped them before reassembly. I also do not use gaskets when reassembling. I use copper-spray sealant...I'm also used this stuff instead of a headgasket on my EX500 and CB900 engines with good results...I hate headgaskets...

fcdrifter13

Scotch brite pad is what I use at work. On a Die grinder to remove gaskets before machining. Just be easy on the pressure as to not damae the metal. That or a wire wheel will work. And if you want to clean them over night and have a clean manifold to work with in the worning. Id use varsal that is keep at about 140 degrees. And what we use to clean some pieces is a kind of kitchen cleaner that is almost brought to a boil oevenight. Then just spary off in the moring and whipe down with laquer thinner to prevent rust on any metal pieces.

Alex Saunders