How to remove 4G64 intake support bracket?

[royster]

Not sure you want to remove that, unless it's different from the fuel-injection plenum. I have the same year truck and the 4G64 (photo below) uses that bracket to support the plenum.

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[Spectre]

Not sure you want to remove that, unless it's different from the fuel-injection plenum. I have the same year truck and the 4G64 (photo below) uses that bracket to support the plenum.

To clarify, the picture is of the donor truck I am harvesting parts from. I want to know how to remove it so I can send it down with the rest of the parts to my friend with the converted truck; when his truck was converted to carburetor, they removed most everything that was EFI related and we believe this bracket is now missing on his truck. Judging by the way the donor truck was put together, it rather does need the support to prevent the intake assembly from cracking off over time.

The reason we are converting the truck back to the factory EFI system is because it has had multiple parts failures and we are unable to find any good matches to the mystery parts used in the conversion. The distributor has failed and the closest match we can find is a 1985-only Galant variant. Even then it's not that close a match and the bloody thing costs more than all the EFI parts from the yard cost.


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It should perhaps be mentioned that while I'm in the US and the truck in question is a US market 1990, the truck is not presently in the US; neither is my friend who owns it. The truck is currently somewhere there's basically no parts down there for it and I'm trying to help him out.