Mine are easy to remove, takes me longer to remove the 8mm nuts then any other part. I just use a 22mm wrench and an 8mm....brake everything lose and then use my hands to unthread them...granted its a 78 and I don't stand on the wrench to tighten them. On my 81 300d, I had to remove the hard lines because they were all carbon up...and froze....

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