'06 Honda Shadow VT600 - Intake Manifold Question

• Intake manifold
• VT600

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  Tree New Member

  9/18/26, 6:25 AM

  Good morning!
  
  Rookie motorcyclist here, reading/watching a TON of your content (thanks for that btw!) and ran into a snag that I thought I'd ask for help for.
  
  My intake manifold has a leak, so I scooped up another stock one. Problem is, the previous owner appears to have stripped the allen bolts mounting the thing. It's already a pretty tricky thing to work at, but with the bolts as is I have no clue what to do to get them out and mount the new one.
  
  Any tips/suggestions on how to get those out? I was going to scoop up some PB Blaster and a star torx drive socket and pray, but thought it might be smarter to ask the hive mind first.

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  Dr.Phatpants

  9/18/26, 1:37 PM

  With Allen heads, if I can get a hack saw onto the Allen head, without damaging anything else, I just saw a slit into it and use a flat head screwdriver. Using a larger Allen wrench has also worked. Youtube might help too. Good luck

  I'd rather be mediocre at fixing my motorcycle than great at pickleball

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