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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 05:12 AM
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I'm planning on cleaning the MAF on my '97 F-150 4.6. I found some good info on the board about MAF cleaning. Most of the MAF cleaning posts I read describe a MAF mount with a box and 2 security star screws. If I'm looking at the right thing on my truck its just pressed into the center (accordian shaped) duct and the wire is "U" shaped vice the 2 wires I've seen described elsehere. Am I looking at the right thing?
 
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 10:44 AM
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You can see it by looking into the air filter housing that is going to the engine. You have to open the air filter housing and if you look into the left size of the housing, you can pop out the center section and the MAF comes out with it.
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 02:04 PM
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Thanks Lxman. I don't know what that other thing was, but whatever it was, it's clean now. Guess I have to go back and clean the "real" MAF.
 
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Old Jan 25, 2004 | 03:03 PM
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That was the intake air temp sensor.
It tells the computer what the air temp of the incoming air is.
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