Trying to remove the alta inlet pipe and it will not come off. It's been an hour and I've managed 1/16 of an inch.

How do I get it off? Has anyone else ran into this problem?

Pipe has only been on the car for a few months now.

 

Cracked the weld on the intake. Completely screwed now, no idea how I'm gonna get the little coupler piece withe set screws in it off the turbo.

 

doesn't it just unscrew with an allen/hex key?

 

Damn. Yeah I had one of those on my car for about half a day, hated it, tried to get it off and ended up scratching the sh*t out of the turbo inlet port. Unscrewed it of course, then it took my gorilla ex-army friend to get the f*ckin thing off. Used tiny amounts of wd40, pushed it back on to try and get the lubricant under it, then back off. Alot of back and forth and cursing, this guy is huge (his arms are bigger than my head easily) and he struggled with it.

 

Ended up getting it off... In two pieces. Weld cracked all the way around, had to work the coupler off with a screw driver and pry bar. Called alta this morning had to send them pictures but they agreed to replace it, lets hope the next one fits better.