The coolant was leaking out of the passenger side coolant passage, and running along the top of the block over to the driver side of the engine.

Now that the front of the engine is accessible, proceed by removing the EGR tube and bracket. The EGR nut at the front of the intake is 7/8. Once loose, try to gently flex the tube over to the side. If it shows signs that it may break, stop and have a helper hold it when removing and installing the intake manifold. Also remove the PCV valve and tube.

Remove the two heater hoses, one from the fitting on the intake and the other from the tube at the water pump. Also, remove the intake side of the bypass hose from the water pump to intake and fold it out of the way. The coil bracket does not have to be removed, but the rest of the job is much easier with it out of the way. Remove the evaporative emissions line from the solenoid valve at the right rear of the intake by pushing down on the white clip and gently pulling on the line.

The distributor must be removed since it passes through the intake manifold. The easiest way to do this is first, ensure that the plug wires coming from the drivers side of the engine are lined up in the loom in the same order that they are on the cap. Pull them off of the distributor cap and, along with the EGR tube if possible, pull them out of the way. Remove the two small torx screws holding the distributor cap on and fold it and the remaining wires over to the passenger's side of the engine compartment. Do not remove the plug wires from the passengers side of the cap. On this particular year, the distributor is not adjustable, so only the rotor to housing relation must be marked. Marking the distributor location with white out will ensure it is reinstalled correctly.

Once the rotor has been marked to the housing, remove the hold down bolt and pull the distributor out of the engine. Stuff a rag in the distributor hole to keep any tools or parts out of the engine.

Using a stubby 16mm wrench, loosen the fuel lines at the rear of the engine as seen below. If the lines are excessively tight, you will need to use two wrenches. One to hold the line and the other to loosen the nut. Typically, however, fuel line bracket will hold the lines tight enough to allow you to loosen the lines without using two wrenches.

Remove the other end of the evap line that was previously disconnected and set it aside.

Time to Remove the Intake

The engine should look something like this now(below). All wires and hoses are out of the way and everything is disconnected from the intake manifold. Now remove the eight intake bolts (the right rear bolt is hard to access with a socket due to the large wiring harness running near it) and the intake manifold.