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Old 04-25-2001, 11:37 PM
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TPI runners/plenum install.. will not align correctly, why?

It's very odd. I can install both runners loosely, and when I drop the plenum between the runners to bolt it in, I can't get damn thing to line up. It will line up fine on the driver's side, but on the pass. side it wants to sit crooked. I've spent about 5 hours so far on this with no luck. I've tried every method that I can think of. When I was removing the pass. side runners, I didn't know that there was that one bolt that had to be accessed from the opposite side, so I pryed the hell out of the runners in an attempt to remove them. I think this may be part of my problem. What can I do to get all this stuff installed?

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Old 04-26-2001, 03:39 AM
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you pryed??

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Old 04-26-2001, 08:36 AM
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Looks like the sledgehammer is gonna become my best friend...
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hehe yeah its a bitc# i had problems with mine untill i realized that the bolts are diffrent lengths , so when we worked on my cousion 89 formula i keep everything exactly the way i took it off and and it went back on fine, hope this helps
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i know this may be a stupid question but are you putting the runners on the side that they are supposed to be on?they are both different!

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of course they are on the right sides. The one with the small extra tube goes on the passenger side, the other on the driver's side.
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