It seems that my question and thought were bang on with regard to a plastic throttle body.
As we know its a sticky situation.

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Does the car have a plastic throttle body? Probably not but just a thought.

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I'm eyeing up some S/H replacements up on the bay for possible purchase. Doing a lot of underside surface rust removal at the moment then painting the areas.

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I cut the bolts holding the cans to the bumper releasing them, then decided that they were not reusable because the bracket had twisted too much to twist back without it breaking off.

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Yes do it that way, I wish that I'd done that before attempting to undo the torx bolts to the cans.

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Hi I've tackled harder jobs than this on cars so I'm sure I'll get it fixed without cutting the can up.

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I might be able to if I can get a cutting disc between the bolt and inside of the bumper.

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Yep, inside boot job. See my reply to Cobber.
Thanks Glyn.

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Hi and thanks for your interest/reply. Found an old reply to this problem, tried it and success the bumper is off.
8 nuts in the boot that hold the bolts holding the cans to the car, pull the top of the bumper out and down then you have enough access to the bolts to fit a spanner (10mm) then a 13mm socket on the nuts in the boot undo,
job done. Regards Glyn.

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I've taken mine out to feed cold air pipe from the N/S engine vent, but first I will clean and paint suspension support and other bits in that area. Yes I was surprised at the amount of room in that area.
Glyn.

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