I am working on changing the upper and lower manifold gaskets on a 97 f150 4.2l. I am to the point of removing the IMRC actuators off of the back of the lower manifold but can not get to the bottom mounting bolt on both of the actuators. Has anybody removed these? How did you access them and what tool was used?

I also need to unhook the two fuel lines from the fuel injection supply manifold on top of the lower intake manifold. Are special tools required to unhook these?

 

I'll bump it for you!

 

Thanks. After doing some research yesterday I found out the IMRC actuators can stay on and that I need to pull off the injection fuel rail, which isn't nearly as bad.
Found out that to get the fuel lines off that I needed a couple different sizes of fuel line disconnect tools. Found a set of (4) for $10.00 at O'Reileys and got them off last night.