Whats the bag for???

[jhrsmail]

Hey all,
I have a question about my 4.0 SOHC '03 X....I am still searching for reasoning why my X has hardly no power....my 3.0 ranger pulls trailers better than my X...anyways...while gazing under the hood a found a plastic/foam bag resting between my intake manifold...???? anyone know if this is factory..or what??

thanks

 

[Charlie]

Pictures?

 

[jhrsmail]

Pictures?

Yeah...good question...I will take some and post..

 

[muzzymaniac]

I'm guessing that it shouldn't be there.

 

[shorrockt]

Looked and I have one there, it looks like some kind of insulating pad? (it sits in the center between the heads)

 

[jhrsmail]

Looked and I have one there, it looks like some kind of insulating pad? (it sits in the center between the heads)

Yeah...thats it!!....oops guess I sould put it back , heh?....thx shorrockt

 

[Joe Dirt]

Factory assembly worker pillow- should have been removed by line worker...

 

[muzzymaniac]

Factory assembly worker pillow- should have been removed by line worker...

unions!

 

[jhrsmail]

Factory assembly worker pillow- should have been removed by line worker...

I was hoping it was some "Horsepower drainer plug-foam thingie"....all I had to do was pull it out.(which i did)...and voila! extreme Xplorer power!...too bad...thx JD

 

[Joe Dirt]

Kind of like "Steak pillows"

Or at least that's what my kid calls them- the absorbers under the meat in the foam packaging... LOL!

 

[chriswells78]

^^^I like that, very creative. I never thought of them that way. LOL

 

[dmac0923]

my guess is they act as insulation to keep engine heat away from the incoming air in the intake manifolf

similiar to the phenolic carb spacers back in the day which raised the carburator off the top of the engine way from the heat. the spacer did not conduct heat as well as the metal intake

 

[pitbulldell]

anyone find out what the thing actually was?

 

[XtremeRanger]

I think its to keep the heat away from the intake mani......just my .02

 

[Curtis]

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