I suspect it was the cussing. That sometimes works for me too.

Just a thought, but while the heat shield is off,  you might want to tidy up under there  like cutting the corroded bolts and replacing them on the EGR tube heat shield and check the torque on the intake  and exhaust manifolds.  Putting the large heat shield back on is not easy either, but not as hard as removing it for some reason. However getting all of the bolts on underneath started will require squirrel size hands. Just a heads up.....

Edited February 17, 20205 yr by gwri8

A handheld mirror works good.