The dealer istalled it for him, but doesn't surprise me if they did it wrong even with instructions. I did find a pic some pages back with the gasket tab facing down, but with the throttle body on it looks like his does and at an angle to the left.
OK yup his was installed with that tab facing up. Makes me wonder if being upside down is causing any issues. Even upside down the screw holes fit in the same places from the looks of it. Only difference is the gasket.Here's mine during install. Tab was facing down.
He's going to fix it tomorrow. Hopefully the dealership didn't mess up the manifold. He doesn't want to take it back in fear they'll make things worse.
The manifold will be ok as long as they didn't over torque the bolts. Remove the air intake completely so it's out of the way otherwise he will be fighting with it. Make sure the torque specs from the instructions are followed closely when re installing the adapter and throttle body.
That's what would worry me the most. You know darn well they don't used torque wrenches if they can't even install it correctly even with instructions.
The intake manifold or the throttle body spacer threads "could" be damaged by over torqueing. A new intake manifold is the worst case scenario. The throttle body will be fine because it doesn't have threaded holes. The tune won't have to be re-loaded in any case.
What size bits for the smaller adapter bolts are needed? I must be blind, not seeing it on the instructions. I'll run over tomorrow and help.
I don't recall what size the hex bit or hex nut bolt was.
Try McMaster-Carr?? They have 1,000's of bolts.
