Ahhh! Stripped intake manifold screw!

[mike-s]

Cutting the intake manifold off to get it out of the way. Then you could probably get vice grips to grab that stripped screw. Of course, you would need to buy a new intake manifold. But they're still available.

Had to do that on my 250 when i replaced the boots, cut(or is that hacked ) them to bits with a hacksaw to give me working room with vicegrips, had to mangle every bolt. Cheesey mild steel Philips head screws, now really, what were they thinking?

I replaced the screws with allen bolts (much nicer).

Ditto on both asthetics & practicality. Replaced the valve cap bolts with hs steel hex bolts after having an oem bolt snap on me & forcing me to easy-out the naffed remenants.