Someone please tell me i don't have to take the intake off.
I was in your boat, I didn't want to take the intake off, eventhough everyone else told me to that I have to. Well, I was able to do the wire swap without taking off intake
yep that is right. If I remember corectly I was able to do myself 5 or 6 wires no problem, but for those that hard to reach under intake I used my wife
. She's got small hands and she was able to snake her hands in to change wires. The whole job took aproximately 30 min (with changing plugs at the same time).
So if you have a teenager in the house or a wife with small hands you can slave them to help you with the job without taking intake off.