Trick Flow intake owners, I need your help

wht87gt

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How the hell do I torque the two upper to lower nuts on the drivers side of the intake. ( see pics ) I've tried a 3/8 dirve socket, a 1/4 dirve socket, and even ordered a 3/8 drive flex socket from sears and nothing will fit past the curved part of the intake. I've been trying to avoid just using a box wrench and guessing at the torque on those two nuts. What have you guys done?

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vikingpower

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I've never torqued upper to lower bolts before, just make sure they're nice and tight.

 

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Sicarius428

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By hand. There is no way to get a proper torque setting. Especially with the flex socket or universal adapters. Just make sure its pretty snug and recheck it in a couple days.
Kevin

 

wht87gt

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Thanks guys

 

ShortThrow50

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yeah, thats the kinda stuff you dont need to torque. Like mentioned above just use your hand as a torque wrench

 

Dr. Wu 2000

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I had the same problem...I could not get a bite on it and the previous owner had stripped the s!@t out of it anyway. I had dropped the car off to be worked on and they were able to get the intake off so they did it somehow...I did not ask

 

wht87gt

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Just an FYI, I called Trick Flow today an asked about this. In their instructions it says to torque the upper to lower bolts so I figured I'd call them and find out for sure what I needed to do. They told me that there is no way to get a socket on those bolts, as many of you have already stated. No offense to you guys who responded, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to screw anything up after spending all this money.

 

BlooDReigN

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Just used a box end on mine as well...Some of them I couldn't even get a box end on though and ended up having to use vice grips to tighten them up!

 

DucatiRdr

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You can torque bolts like that with an adapter from Snap-On, or use a crow's foot wrench with an extension. As long as you keep the torque wrench and extension at a 90* angle you don't have to do any torque conversion.

 

daddystang

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You need to use a box end 10 or 11mm (I can't remember which) wrench for the front with the distributor cap off for clearence, and you can get a small twelve point socket on the back just barely enough to tighten it down. That's how I did mine. Hope that helps, good luck to you.

 

RYC CUKR

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I used a box end 3/8" 12 point wrench and a lot of patience with those two nuts on my Track Heat intake.

 

1991vert

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ya it's a 3/8" wrench

 

795.0pacecar

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I use a 1/4 drive snap-on universal joint socket. High quality tools usually have pretty thin walls so you can get them in more places.