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2007 Ford F-150 Regular Questions & Answers
How hard is it to clean a throttle bodyon a ford f150
Not hard at all you can buy throttle body cleaner at your auto parts store, remove the line from the air vent. Open the choke flap and spray away and wipe clean with a rag. If you go to YouTube you'll see it done on video before you tackle it.
1995 ford f150 xlt 4x4 straight six 5 speed.. the
I can't tell you the length but the diameter of brake lines is commonly 3/16" and rarely bigger - some older vehicles and heavier vehicle use 1/4".
The size of the pipe is intuitive by simple comparison or measuring with a caliper but there is several different threads, lengths, diameters of pipe nuts in common use and it is important to get these right first time.
It is also very important the replacement pipe is formed exactly as the original, follows exactly the original route and is adequately secured.
When one brake pipe fails usually others aren't far behind and the failure of a pipe should signal a very close examination of the others, especially looking for corrosion scale or pitting close to the wheels. Replacing four or five pipes on a large vehicle can use a whole 25 foot roll of pipe.
It might be better to invest in a cheap pipe flaring kit and the materials to produce your own pipes - or remove the old pipes and ask a local repairer to make new pipes to those patterns. That was my job as an apprentice and I must have produced a mile of pipes for outside customers.
Temperature gauge is at normal but coolant is coming out recovery tank when I drive it
You have trapped air in the cooling system, purge the air out of the system. You can do this by raising the car front end as high as possible and filling the coolant recovery tank to the brim leave the cap off, then run engine until it reaches operating temperature, then shut it down and run cold water over the radiator core, the coolant tank will be sucked dry most likely as the air is purged and replaced by coolant.
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