| Benn, I use a dead blow rubber hammer. Works without putting lumps or 
bending the tube.   Doug Odom in big ditch
Benn wrote:
>Anyone know how to readily remove the oil filler tube on an old 'vette intake
>manifold without removing the manifold?  I'm trying to rotate it so the smog
>hose fitting will be oriented away from the cold air setup I'm fabbing.  But
>the thing seems dead solid in there, so my hopes of wiggling it loose were
>soon dashed.  I guess the fact that the tube is steel and the manifold
>aluminum means that they needed to use a bit more interference fit to make it
>stay, which it has done admirably for 40 years.
>Benn
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