Heater Hose Fitting, Lower Intake Manifold

[Gunfighter97]

Anyone know how to remove this piece or if it can be removed? Before I go reefing on it with channel locks I want to confirm if it simply unscrews or not. Cant find the part online at all. Looking to refresh this intake for a short block build. Truck is an 87 Ranger XLT 4x4, 2.9L engine, which is what is going back in.
Thanks

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Theoretically it should just be a nipple screwed in there…

I‘ve never tried to remove one on anything but a 98 Explorer 5.0 which I knew for a fact screwed in. It was also a whole assembly thing that held a temp sensor and had steel heater lines attached and was all badly rusted. I used some pipe thread and AN fittings to rebuild it. I’ve always just worked around it on my other rigs.

 

[Gunfighter97]

I'll try and remove it with vice grips on my next day off. Theres a 1" ish long portion on the inside thats pretty scaley with rust, hopefully wont be too big an issue amd will just unscrew.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Maybe use some heat and penetrating oil

 

[Gunfighter97]

Angel piss (kroil) it is

 

[Gunfighter97]

She's stuck good. Will have to let it soak a while longer tube on this one is obviously steel, one on my old engine is brass. Wtf Ford??

 

[Gunfighter97]

Kay. I finally popped it loose and IT DOES NOT HAVE THREADS in any form, just free spins and is likely either a press fit with sealant or cast into the manifold. Hopefully the former. Standby, going to be a bit before I can do a repair writeup. I will probably cut it with a hacksaw or dremel cut off and go from there, drill out, remove remains, final size drill/ream, then tap for an NPT or some kind of hose nipple that will work.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Kay. I finally popped it loose and IT DOES NOT HAVE THREADS in any form, just free spins and is likely either a press fit with sealant or cast into the manifold. Hopefully the former. Standby, going to be a bit before I can do a repair writeup. I will probably cut it with a hacksaw or dremel cut off and go from there, drill out, remove remains, final size drill/ream, then tap for an NPT or some kind of hose nipple that will work.

Interesting…

 

[Gunfighter97]

Interesting…

So. . . My bad; first of all.

This intake is not from my vehicle, which I should've said in the initial post. In reading around here, I discovered its a later 90s intake casting with more pronounced intake runners, and overall a thicker casting(Which is a good find, I guess?). Handy as I wanted to try my hand at a port, polish and gasket match job. So maybe the old one's coolant nipple is threaded in place? I'm reading up on the 2.9s and didn't have that tid bit when I posted. I have an idea to see if it is a press fit. I will put a bolt through the nipple to the bottom, through a backwards flange nut with a wrench on it, and tigten the bolt to try and pull the nipple out screw jack style. That'll have to wait till next I work on it though. I gotta give my IH habbit some attention next week instead of this project :/