Jeremy5848 - Thanks for posting pics!
I'm following your thread with interest as I'm right in the middle of my clean-up project also.
I was trying to remove my #35 piece and it was so brittle that it also broke, I had the upper-outside part on my hand and the lower-inside-of-the-valve-cover piece is still in there in one piece. I'm going to take my time getting it out using the vacuum-cleaner method as suggested.
All of the plastic pieces that connect to the intake manifold (#56's) were also hard and brittle and they broke the nipple when I pulled them off. I don't think I'll be replacing them though...I'll probably go a different route. I'm thinking of plugging all these breather holes in the IM and venting the fumes under the car using the plumbing from the newer 606 turbo models- I worked too darn hard at cleaning my cross-pipe and IM to ever let any of this junk back into my baby's lungs again.
