Ok, so I bought a 91 model 4runner with 3.0 and blown HGs imagine that... I've removed all the intake bolts and nuts, head studs and down pipe on the exhaust. The problem I'm having is the front of the heads and intake are loose but for some reason I'm having trouble with the back of the motor coming loose. Am I missing something? I've done my best searching this forum for an answer but so far haven't found the answer I'm looking for....

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 

Can you please post some pics so we can better identify your problem?

 

Sure! Let me get to the house and I'll get a few shots and post them up.

 

Driver's side head.





Top view of passenger side head and intake. I loosely left to two nuts on the studs in front of intake.





Rear of intake. Broke one of the studs of trying to remove the nut.





Passenger side head bolting removed from head...





Driver's side head closest to the firewall. Notice the crossover piping to the right.





Close up of boring removed from driver's side head closest to the firewall





Exhaust loose from the driver's side header

 

I'm able to pick up the front on the heads and intake but the back of the heads and intake aren't loose for some reason and I can't figure out why... I cannot remove the intake by itself because the two studs in the back that go thru the intake and into the heads is "seized up" and it won't let the intake slide up the bolts...

I've tried to pry the intake loose from the heads but it won't budge... So I decided that I would try to pull the heads with the intake, exhaust headers and crossover piping attached but again too no avail....