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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1472545" data-attributes="member: 11896">so I get the upper intake off to get the fuel rail off so I can get the pipe out.  After all that it looks like the teflon tape failed where it connects to the lower and its not actually leaking from the part that rotates.  After taking all that down and knowing it going to fail eventually and i was already knee deep with the pipe off I elected to replace the orings anyway.  The bottom of the pipe looks like it needs a specialty took/ratchet bit with 4 spots that engage it to rotate it as my biggest prying screw driver will not go across it to do anything so I figure they probably have it at vatozone.  I am never going to go there again for anything short of soap after them screwing up my spark plugs and now tonight.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/Kd3ou5R.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> So I go to vatozone and I am in the tool isle when an old dude that works there asks if I need help.  I found what looks like the same bit design I need except they are all WAY too big so I explain to him and he starts looking but I can tell he has never seen it before.  Eventually he stopped at a Stepper drill bit hanging on the rack and asked if that would do it?  I was scared as I told him it was a drill bit.  He took a closer look at it and said maybe he had something in the back that would work so I let him take the pipe in the back while another employee that I know talked for a sec.  30 secs later old dude comes out from the back with a pair of vice grips that he is adjusting to be JUST a tad smaller than that 1/16 lip that hangs out the end.  I saw what he was doing and said to stop what he was doing I did NOT want him to try and pull it apart with the vice grips.  The old dude said he thought he could get a grip on it and get it out and was still adjusting the vice grips when I interrupted him to say I know there is a proper way to do this and a correct tool to do it but we both know a pair of vice grips was not in either of those and I did not mind waiting a few days to do it right if needed while I was grabbing the pipe from his hands.  No shit old dude was going to do me a solid and take it apart with me the best way he didn't know how I mean what is the worst that can happen.  I am hoping NAPA will know more tomorrow but I know at the very least they are not going to go fudge it up....</blockquote>