So I've had a cold start and idle belt squeak since in installed my rocker arms. After noticing a very slow coolant leak I inspected my old plastic elbows to find that one had broken off in the water pump or lower intake right around the o ring. It was in the lower intake and in the process of retrieving it, it fell inside the lower intake.
Yay!!! Now I get to replace my lower intake gaskets that are perfectly fine.
Picked up the gaskets, new aluminum elbows and grey rtv.
Got everything expect the the egr and lower intake removed in under an hour. Now that damn lower intake manifold is thumbing it's nose at me after eating the broken off piece of elbow. I've yanked on it and beat on it with a plastic deadblow to no avail.
Any idea to get this little **** to come loose?
