what is this thing?
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what is this thing?
Hi, when I went to replace the throttle housing, I found this rubber sleeve laying under it on the valve cover. It's a FI 302, 5.0 2wd. What is it and does anyone know where it goes? It has a small slit in the end as if something protrudes through it. It's about an inch and a half long diameter of a pencil with a washer shape on the end, all one piece. [img]htp//file:///C:/My%20Documents/Img00129.jpg [/img]Please help.
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after 26 views and no replies, I was able to put three pictures of it in my album. Please have a look and maybe someone will save me from having this thing torn apart looking for the home to this thing forever.
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it's rubber and looks as if it would go into something being that the outside is clean and the inside has a buildup. I'll check the feul rail. Thank you for the opinion, they don't come too often, been checking all day.
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days end and the thing sits in the toolbox. I put everything back together and it runs fine, no codes. I'll check back later to see if anyone can name the mystery part. I do believe it is a vaccuum part. It's not the schrader valve cover.
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That item is not part of your truck. Its a plug, and some monkey who worked on your truck at one point probably used it to plug an oriface somewhere (or sometimes those things are used to hold something down, like a fastener).
Its a smaller version of the "oil plug repair kit" which is a rubber thing, with a screw in it to make it shorter, and wider, to plug a hole.
Toss it.
Its a smaller version of the "oil plug repair kit" which is a rubber thing, with a screw in it to make it shorter, and wider, to plug a hole.
Toss it.
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I think the part he found may just be a stud cover. I found several of these things in the engine bay of my truck. Some green, some white, black, red... Pretty! They were of varying size and length. It's probably so that assembly line workers don't cut themselves on the exposed studs and nuts of the engine. Here's a pic of the only one I still have "installed". All the others fell out either on the road or into weird cubby holes of the engine:
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