Well not a bad week with my truck this week, actually got some work done on it since I finally got a weekend off. On Friday I started working on it at 9am ahnd finished at 5pm.
Lets see I changed the PCV Valve, Old one was gunked up, changed the oil with the suggested Delo 400 15 w 40 and supplemented with a quart of Lucas oil Stabilizer which pratically took 10 minutes on its own to go down the fill opening. This stuff actually slowed the leaking of the the engine. Changed the oil filter which was a fram with a K&N. The oil pressure went up with this filter, or was it the oil .
Tightend the tranny pan bolts which stopped a leak( after a half assed service done by someone else). Cleaned the Idle air control valve. And removed an old power door lock actuater that didnt work and added a used one that did. This part of the work took a while. I pounded out one rivit thinking the part would come off. WRONG. What I thought was a mount was another rivet. This took about 10 minuteds of poundiing to remove. Next was the issue of installing the new one. One I had to search for a nut and bolt to fit tightly to work then I had to rig the rod with electrical tape to fit into the lock mechanism. This was a pain cause I had to disconnect the window guide and a door panel mout to install this thing. Afte 2 hours of cussing ford (sorry, anger problems ) I had both power locks working.
Now the interesting things with the questions.
1) After driving I place the truck in Park or in Neutral, it stalls. This stumps me cause it doesnt do this any other time . Any ideas why?
2) I purchased a crancase airfilter but cant for the life of me figure out where it goes. Any clues?

After trying the K&N Air filter for about 3 weeks I have noticed no difference in performance or gas milage, maybe this application is best for performance mods.

Next project, getting fuel from my main tank. Time to replace the switching unit and see what this does. It kills me knowing I have a full tank but no way to get it to the engine. Aux is doing fine for now.

Well thats it for now I guess. More ranting next week unless somthing else comes up beforehand. Have a great week

 

Just for a note, I replace a fram with a puralator and got 10-12 psi more oil pressure than a fram. No more frams for me :

 

Me neither, I also have a motorcraft filter Ill try next to see what happens.Of the three filters used on this truck, Penzoil, Fram & K&N,K&N seems to have done the best. Ill put purolator on my list to try along with wix.

 

2) I purchased a crancase airfilter but cant for the life of me figure out where it goes. Any clues?

I think it is the small filter inside the breather that the tube from the oil filler cap hooks on to.

 

i think they go inside the air filter where the tube meets the housing

 

I've heard nothing but bad things about Fram and the collapsing element they use subpar materials and have been known to collapese and then the filter media gets circulated it the engine along with all of the other bad contaminates. I wsih I could find the study that was done on oil filters. Someone had bought every brand available and disassembled them measuring filter media and how the filters were made, and the Fram even looked like the junkiest filter. They were the only one that used cardboard end caps i believe. I just stick with Motorcraft FL1A.

 

http://www.frankhunt.com/FRANK/corve...lterstudy.html

Here's the oil filter study.

 

Take the air filter out of the air box, and look down in there. There should be a hose that goes from one of the valve covers to the bottom of the box (below the air filter), on the inside of the box is where that filter should be. Someone had removed the filter element from mine, but left the back plastic piece with the clip to hold the hose in. If someone removed your filter and just shoved the hose back in the box you need to come up with the clip to hold it all together.