| As others have said, planning is EVERYTHING. If you even *try to screw with all those hoses, you're kidding yourself. IF you for some reason NEED the throttle body coolant lines and won't do the coolant/vac bypassses, ....*BUY NEW!!!* I am doing the bypasses, and it took me long enough even with cutting all the lines as they sit.
(moving the clamps and breaking the hoses is too time consuming)
Most of the hoses were sealed to the tubes and or brittle anyway. Buy the Z1 silicone PCV kit and new PCVs, they are too much of a pain to leave alone.
(Mine were stuck, and one of the hoses literally chunked apart trying to cut it) Get some 11" angled needle nose pliers, some straights too.
(I bought a set at Harbor Freight for $7) The EGR tubes SUCK.
PULL THE HARDPIPE FROM THE TURBO.
I tried to avoid it, but no dice. Had to pull my battery to get to the PS clamp.
Stubby 10mm wrench is your friend here, the goof-tards @ Nissan were trying to give "attack angles" to both sides of the flange making it barely possible to do either! Check over your connectors, if they need replaced, now is the time.
(IACV has 3, and they suck EXACTLY like early injector connectors, all the same type) There really isn't a better time to replace vac hoses, one at a time! I got a friend involved, just being gentle removing injector connectors takes long enough. It took 2 days of ~4hrs each to get it off, that doesn't even count reinstalling! Good luck.
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