Exploder321
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- Joined
- December 7, 2008
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- City, State
- Norfolk, VA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2001 Explorer Eddie Bauer
The trip to the salvage yard was informative and successful. The connector I needed goes to the evap service port (little green cap thing I've never seen used), and to a port under the engine which should go to the vapor canister and the fuel tank. The '01 5.0 has the same vacuum harness and FVMV as the '99 2 door and another '01 both with 4.0 liter engines. I uninstalled 2, picked the better of the two and grabbed up some extra vacuum lines.
Cleaned up the replacement harness, used some McGuire's rubber and vinyl conditioner to hopefully give some extra life to the o-rings, and installed. Snap, snap - good to go. The evap service port had a different mount clip, no hook and push tree that hooked to the radiator, it now lives in that hole in the front clip by the battery (had to tighten the mount clip as it went to a thick plastic flange on its donor vehicle, and is now on sheet metal. The first pic is looking up from underneath, the connector is nice and straight, and you can see the line to the service port running up to the hole in the next pic.
Starts up good, seems to have good power, though highway mileage is still in the mid-teens. Hopefully that will improve - maybe its related to a tired timing chain. At this point I think all the vacuum problems are fixed.
Cleaned up the replacement harness, used some McGuire's rubber and vinyl conditioner to hopefully give some extra life to the o-rings, and installed. Snap, snap - good to go. The evap service port had a different mount clip, no hook and push tree that hooked to the radiator, it now lives in that hole in the front clip by the battery (had to tighten the mount clip as it went to a thick plastic flange on its donor vehicle, and is now on sheet metal. The first pic is looking up from underneath, the connector is nice and straight, and you can see the line to the service port running up to the hole in the next pic.
Starts up good, seems to have good power, though highway mileage is still in the mid-teens. Hopefully that will improve - maybe its related to a tired timing chain. At this point I think all the vacuum problems are fixed.