Well, I tend to get a little long winded when it comes to the details of writing out instructions myself, but you win. Haha! Hey, bravo though man! Thankfully, I've done my lower intake manifold before, so I knew what to do. However, I had to take a swan dive back into it to do my head gasket now. Your patience though, far away is mine because I don't think I could have remembered all the details without recording myself while I was doing it.
Although this post is 15+ years old, I did want to throw out a little something for those who may stumble across this post and still need to read it. When cleaning everything, don't forget to clean out the EGR port from the intake plenum. It's not a straight shot, but rather it hooks off to one side and will tend to get clogged up all the way so the gases cannot escape and recirculate from the EGR. I cleaned mine a while back and got to one of those situations where you couldn't even put anything through it.
There's my two cents. Again, bravo on the post! Well written. 👍
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