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A 5.0 is not the same as a V-6 I can't find a vacum line. Here's what you need to do.
1. Remove the air temperature sensor from the air intake hose, located in front of the throttle body.
2. Find a piece of flexible hose or tubing 6" to 12". 12" or longer works better
3. Buy a ketchup condiment dispenser with cone tip ( the kind you see at the hot dog vendor) Pour the seafoam into the dispenser
4. Remove the plastic throttle linkage cover
5. Start the engine it should idle without the sensor
6. Insert the tip of the dispenser into the tube/hose
7. Insert the tube/hose into the open air temperature hole and squeeze while you manually adjust the idle to keep the engine from stalling.
I did it today, lots of gray smoke lasted about 15 min. The X idles better and doesn't have as much hesitation when accellarating.
Heres how I did it. I have a V-6 but I know that this will work on a V-8 because every vehicle with power brakes (all vehicles since the 50s) have a vacuum line running from the upper intake manifold to the brake booster (the big black disc shaped thing by the master cylider).
1. Disconnect the vacuum line from the brake booster.
2. Start up the engine, it will run kind of rough because of the vacuum leak that you created. You'll also notice that there is a pretty strong "suction" at the end of vacuum line you disconnected.
3. Insert a funnel in the open end of the vacuum line.
4. SLOWLY pour the seafoam into the funnel. If the engine tries to die, have some one give it a little gas.
5. after you finish pouring in the seafoam, shut the engine off immediately.
6. Wait five minutes then restart the engine. Depending on how dirty your engine was, you could have smoke billowing out the exhaust pipe, this is normal.
7. Drive it for a few miles to get all the crap in the engine comepletely burned off.
Heres how I did it. I have a V-6 but I know that this will work on a V-8 because every vehicle with power brakes (all vehicles since the 50s) have a vacuum line running from the upper intake manifold to the brake booster (the big black disc shaped thing by the master cylider).
1. Disconnect the vacuum line from the brake booster.
2. Start up the engine, it will run kind of rough because of the vacuum leak that you created. You'll also notice that there is a pretty strong "suction" at the end of vacuum line you disconnected.
3. Insert a funnel in the open end of the vacuum line.
4. SLOWLY pour the seafoam into the funnel. If the engine tries to die, have some one give it a little gas.
5. after you finish pouring in the seafoam, shut the engine off immediately.
6. Wait five minutes then restart the engine. Depending on how dirty your engine was, you could have smoke billowing out the exhaust pipe, this is normal.
7. Drive it for a few miles to get all the crap in the engine comepletely burned off.
How about you just drill a little hole in the intake tube before the TB and dump it in there? Then just plug it up afterwards. I mean I hope pretty much anyone can handle drilling a hole and then replugging it. Just dont be afraid of the vehicle. It wont bite.
The brake booster line worked fine for me. I replaced all of the spark plugs after I did the seafoam and they all had the white crap coating on them from using the seafoam. I don't know about anyone else, but the brake booster line on mine fed all of the cyliders just fine.
I used the brake booster line on my 4.0 OHV Explorer and I also did it like that on my parents E-150 van with the 302 V-8. It worked great in both cases. The van had 170,000 miles on it and had never had seafoam. When first drove right after putting the seafoam through it, it pretty much turned our driveway into a big white cloud of smoke, it was pretty cool.
