Thanks for the replies. Taking a lunch break. I got the old intake off. Dissy tried to be stubborn. PB blaster and a rubber mallet broke it loose.

How many feelings you done hurt with that Pinto HOSS429?
I had a '77 four banger I bought off my sister after I totaled my '81 'Stang.
Darn thing wouldn't go over 70 but it take me to any fishin' hole I knew.
It hated my X too. Everytime she drove it it would break down. Never did with me. That car was a good judge of charactor.