I changed the knock sensor, upper and lower seals,IMT seals, and spark plugs on my 2003 2.5L X-Type. I bought new brass vacuum seals for the tubes but cant figure out how to get the old brass vacuum tube seals out of the top of the intake manifold. I tried a blind hole puller with a slide hammer but that wont budge the seals at all. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please respond or PM me.

 

Hi Dan I had same problem and decide to leave brass slevve in place and just swapped the O ring and plastic retainer.
If you have abused the brass sleeve in attempting to get it out I would step drill it till it has no wall thickness left and it should collapse and come out then?

If you have an issue with it its just a pneumatic fitting, so you could replace with a normal pneumatic fitting, for that diameter hose with threaded end and tap the manifold?