Why is the brake booster vaccum port at the bottom/back of the intake and how do you get to it??? I would appreciate any advice from anyone who works on these.
Martin
Martin
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2004 Ford F150 3 valve 5.4
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Honestly the easiest thing to do is pull the intake off. Its not too hard to do.
Yeah, I just swung an engine in it, and I must have pulled the hose back off when I pulled the intake up to pull out a broken bolt. I was just hoping someone knew another way, although I was doubting it. Why did they put it there instead of on top of the intake????
Martin
Martin
Because the factory doesn't have to plan for maintenance. If it is easy to assemble with the sheet metal off, it is good enough to assemble in the factory.
I understand that to a point, but it honestly couldn't be much easier. There are already two other vacuum ports on the top of the intake, and it would have been a shorter route, along with a cheaper part. There had to be some goofy reason.
Martin
Martin
You could ask the same question about the 2 piece spark plugs that like to separate. Just glad I don't own any of those. For all we know they had an intern working on the design of those parts.
Main reason was to make the GM owners feel better. Ford was tired of hearing all the crying when GM had to work on the distributor, so they gave their customers something to gripe about........
The distributor is not in a bad place. This is. It is right above the bellhousing, under the cowl, with fuel lines bolted to the block above it. Pure stupid. In hindsight, I should have done away with the tube bolted to the back of the head, and just ran vacuum hose all of the way.
Martin
Martin
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5.4's are a turd..... we had 3 of them in our truck fleet get holes in the aluminum heads on the water jacket castings below the intake.....
and don't even get me started on spark plug thread issues......
and don't even get me started on spark plug thread issues......
Yeah, I had to pull out all eight broken plugs on the junkyard engine.
Martin
Martin
Remove the front driveshaft. Apparently that is the answer. Take the driveshaft loose at the front axle and take the shifter cable loose from the side of the transmission. Then you can kind of get your hand up there.
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Martin
