WOW Richmond!? Talk about close!!! If you have any really troubles I am sure I would be able to help you whenever I visit Richmond . Charlottesville is only 1 hour or less away from Richmond haha. And yeah the MAF has some play room with the cord so you should be able to do it with the MAF still connected. I understand the clips are hard to put back on after removing them on the bottom half of the MAF. Just take your time and make sure you place the parts with the bolts/screws/clips that you remove. This will keep it simple when putting everything back. I will be able to post pictures or even maybe walk you through it on the phone if you happen to get caught up. Nice to hear from you and gl

 

Hopefully you finished this up by now, but I have the picture you requested on where the clip is! I am sorry about how long it took sortive forgot about it till I was taking mine off the other day! Let me know Thanks Sam