Re: Removing Intake Heat Shield

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 mikemccarthy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > How do you remove the heat shield from a manifold?

Lightly file the sides of the rivet heads so they're flat and
grippable.  Then grip them with new, small, non-rounded-over
ViceGrip pilers, hard, and 'unscrew' them. They usually have a
very fast thread for tapping in.

Back when I drove V8's I got to reuse the rivets this way.