Re: [DMCForum] Re: It's Official -- Fuel Injection Sucks (Greg)
From: Andrei Cular <acular@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:08:02 -0500
And if you pull the 2 air hoses you have a direct shot at it, with room
for 2 caps to x-fer the wires.
Andrei
content22207 wrote:
>Nope -- this is what mine looks like:
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>http://bjoern.brembs.net/cars/engine.jpg
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>I think there's a distributor in there somewhere...
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>Bill Robertson
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>>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
>>Bill,
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>>As I mentioned before, this is a very simple system and I have no
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>doubt you
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>>can understand how it works by nothing more than looking at it.
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>>This should be what your engine looks like, right?
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>>http://mustangandfords.com/howto/p63288_image_large.jpg
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>>If the throttle is in the way of removing the passenger side valve
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>cover,
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>>you should be able to remove the throttle assembly fairly easily.
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>>If you need to get the whole plenum out of the way, doing so will
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>give you
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>>this much room.
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>>http://mustangandfords.com/howto/p63327_image_large.jpg
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>>It really is a very simple system, like the GM TPI is as well.
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>>Greg
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: content22207 [mailto:brobertson@xxxx]
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:35 PM
>>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [DMCForum] It's Official -- Fuel Injection Sucks
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>>I am in DC to take final possession of a new to me truck that has
>>apparently never been subjected to the rigors of routine maintenance
>>(the vehicle I was slam shifting around New Jersey last month).
>>Decided to start with ignition (cap/rotor/wires/plugs). Ford Motor
>>Company has absolutely ruined the 302 with EFI. What should have taken
>>less than a half hour consumed most of my afternoon. The distributor
>>is still right up front, where it always has been, but now has a
>>gigantic air plenum covering it up. Covers the water temp sender too.
>>And the PCV valve. Ever thorough, Ford decided to wrap the plenum over
>>the passenger valve cover as well, which in my case is leaking and
>>needs a new gasket. It's Douvrin all over again...
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>>Which way to the nearest cast iron manifold?
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>>Bill Robertson
>>#5939
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