tell me I'm not screwed? easy to replace? i stripped the torx bits that hold that bracket down to the intake manifold so i can't take that off to get at it.

 

Ack. I hate it when that stuff happens. Always in places with limited access too.
I'd consider taking a dremel with a small cut-off wheel and cutting a flat notch into the screw heads, then unscrewing them with a stubby flat blade.

 

Those puppys are tight huh! When you were taking them off were you using a torx bit and drive?

 

i did! do i need to fix this? i just put the intake/exhaust back on and forgot about this.

 

yeah. You'll be working that spring when you step on the gas otherwise.
doesn't that cable assembly just pull up through the mounting tab once it's disconnected?

 

i was trying that after i stripped the torx bolts, thats how it broke haha. but i guess I'm gona have to try to get it out tomorrow.

 

That plastic just gets brittle with age and heat. I looked at my heater control valve the wrong way and it broke, lol.
I don't know who thought it was a good idea to make radiator tanks out of that same stuff, but they're on "The List".

 

haha thats great. i just destroyed the cable and ordered a new one at auto zone today. hopefully it just replaces the old one and i don't have to take the intake manifold off? someone warn me if i have to though! haha

thanks guys!

 

easy peasy on the throttle cable. even after reading your post about the heater valve breaking, i broke mine lol

 

oh! also the metal rod that connects from the throttle body to that mounting plate on intake manifold broke. what is that called? pretty sure im gona have to go to the junkyard to find a good one.

its right behind those throttle cable is the first pic

 

the new throttle cable has tabs to lock it in, you really don't need any tools to replace it, i just did mine thats how i know!