86 motor clean up
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86 motor clean up
I have been working today and probably all this week on cleaning up under the hood of my 86 f150 with a 351W carb motor. when i say clean up i mean taking out the junk i dont need and making sense of the wires of hoses. I have started taking out everything for the a/c, dont need it in that truck and its wasted space under the hood. is there a simple way to clean up all the vaccuum hoses under the hood? It seems that there would be an easy way to where its a few hoses tucked away somewhere that it doesn't make it ugly. right now there are a ton of hoses under there. next thing, has anyone ever made a wiring harness by using the electrical diagrams online and in haynes manual? I would like to put a new one in and all the ones i have seen online are over 500 bucks. thanks
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Several of those vacuum lines serve a useful purpose and should not be removed. Vacuum advance for the distributor, vacuum to the air door on the air cleaner, etc.
For wiring, I just opened my harness(removed the tape), and pulled out the wires that didn't go to anything.
But first, are you subject to emissions checks?
For wiring, I just opened my harness(removed the tape), and pulled out the wires that didn't go to anything.
But first, are you subject to emissions checks?
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no i dont believe so, the truck is in Virginia. I never heard of emissions check with any of my other rigs so I would say no. i know some of the vaccuum lines have broke and just laying there. I need to get a diagram for the lines and just run new lines
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For your wiring, I would suggest something like what in the link below. I have this for my 82 and it is very good, I actually got mine from Faxon!!
The Haynes manual is not nearly detailed enough to do any in-depth wiring. You may want to get what called an EVTM (Electrical and Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual), it's part of the Ford Shop Manual series. Unfortunately, they are hard to come by on the 86's....I've been looking. But the EVTM's do a great job of explaining a lot of what is not described in the schematics.
1986 Ford Pickup Truck Wiring Diagram F150 F250 F350 Electrical Schematic 86 | eBay
The Haynes manual is not nearly detailed enough to do any in-depth wiring. You may want to get what called an EVTM (Electrical and Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual), it's part of the Ford Shop Manual series. Unfortunately, they are hard to come by on the 86's....I've been looking. But the EVTM's do a great job of explaining a lot of what is not described in the schematics.
1986 Ford Pickup Truck Wiring Diagram F150 F250 F350 Electrical Schematic 86 | eBay
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thank ya for that, i'll look into getting one of those, i would really like to get the wires done because i am having a short somewhere. back when i had it going i couldn't leave the battery hooked up when shut off because the battery would drain, it has a brand new alternator and brand new voltage regulator, id like to figure that out too before i take her back out
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Good idea, Where did you go to basic training? Ft. Leonardwood? We (12B's) always hated all the passes 88M's and MP's got in AIT haha.
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For your wiring, I would suggest something like what in the link below. I have this for my 82 and it is very good, I actually got mine from Faxon!!
The Haynes manual is not nearly detailed enough to do any in-depth wiring. You may want to get what called an EVTM (Electrical and Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual), it's part of the Ford Shop Manual series. Unfortunately, they are hard to come by on the 86's....I've been looking. But the EVTM's do a great job of explaining a lot of what is not described in the schematics.
1986 Ford Pickup Truck Wiring Diagram F150 F250 F350 Electrical Schematic 86 | eBay
The Haynes manual is not nearly detailed enough to do any in-depth wiring. You may want to get what called an EVTM (Electrical and Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual), it's part of the Ford Shop Manual series. Unfortunately, they are hard to come by on the 86's....I've been looking. But the EVTM's do a great job of explaining a lot of what is not described in the schematics.
1986 Ford Pickup Truck Wiring Diagram F150 F250 F350 Electrical Schematic 86 | eBay
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Did some more searching...Saw some older posts that NAPA sells them. Also found the following: http://www.fordtechservice.dealercon...torcatalog.pdf
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