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โSep-07-2015 11:26 AM
j-d wrote:
Ford put the Vacuum Check Valve and Vacuum Reserve Canister IN the HVAC Cabinet! Convenient exotic engineering but awful servicing. Going TO the controls with vacuum, the vents worked. Going from engine source to and from the HVAC cabinet showed only LEAK. Ran a hose from engine source to controls and it all works. Now I need a replacement Check Valve, Reserve Canister, and space to install the Canister. The hard work of diagnosis and hose routing are done. I can reassemble most of what I tore apart, and install the Canister and Valve at either end of the bypass hose. This is gonna work out.
โSep-07-2015 11:20 AM
j-d wrote:
FIXED!
I bought a spherical vacuum canister (looks like the Acme anti-Roadrunner bomb ordered by Wiley Coyote) and a two-port vacuum check valve (both in Dorman products HELP line) from local Advance Auto Parts. O'Reilly, NAPA, Amazon all have equivalents.
Found a spot underhood behind the air filter assembly. I could get to the area by removing the filter housing and element ONLY. No need to pull anything else. There were two brackets hanging down. Nothing attached, holes ready for 1/4" bolts. Mounted one end to one bracket and made a strapping iron strip to reach the other end.
This pic shows the canister installed, behind the filter
Here's the connection to the vacuum line from the intake manifold, along with the new check valve. Intake manifold line is RED. All the rest of vacuum source to the controls are BLACK. One line out of the valve goes to the Canister, the other to the bypass line I ran into the cockpit![]()
SO!!! Verify Source Vacuum First! Anybody needing help, send'em to me.
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