Hey guys, in the middle of putting in a short ram intake (HPS, got used on eBay for $75 shipped).

I have the air box out of the car and am trying to remove my MAF sensor to swap into the new intake, but one of my bolts is completely seized on there...

My car is less than 2 yrs old and I live in Florida so it seems ridiculous, but it's stuck.

I made the mistake of doing this at my storage garage/room where I don't keep many tools or WD40. I tried heat (have a torch here lol) but am afraid to melt the sensor or plastic on the housing.

Any helpful tips for getting this thing unstuck? As of now I am stranded at my storage room and do not want to reinstall my stock air box to drive somewhere and get WD40 to hopefully loosen this up.

Have a reg small toolbox with a bunch of stuff in it just no PB blaster or WD40.

 

Have two motorcycles sitting here and the keys to both are at home. Perhaps I'll take the kayak lol

 

Walked to gas station and bought WD40 no help lol

 

Liquid Wrench was my goto FreeShitUp juice when I wrenched for a living, it seeks a very fine line (penetrates). Add about 1/5th by volume ATF so when the LW evaporates it leaves a bit of ATF behind.

Not sure what the goto penetrating is oil now? I use to let LW work over nite, longer if I could.

 

I didn't have time to wait so I hit it with the torch a little (WD40 did nothing) and the metal piece that the little bolt screws into came out with the sensor.



Couldn't even get that off without heating it up. These tiny bolts Honda used are ridiculous. Really a Phillips head aka the easiest thing to strip in the world?

 

Heat is the last resort, glad you got it out

 

Ended up taking an uber to Walmart because I didn't want to reuse the rusty bolt. Didn't find anything the same size so I reused it anyway. Car is back together and running great.

The HPS short ram intake is not as loud as I expected. There is a small but still definitely noticeable increase from 4-6k, 6k-redline still seems just as flat and I did not notice any loss of low end. Definitely sounds less like a vacuum cleaner now! Easily worth the $$ but the Clazzios are still my favorite mod for the $$

 

Usually for fasteners that are frozen, PB Blaster works pretty good too