Anyone with suggestions or pointers on what to delete or not delete. The pass side engine compartment is cobbed up with a bunch of vacuum tubes and lines and boxes and valves. It needs gone, I can work on stuff with all that sh** in the way.

AC is getting deleted. Smog pump is getting deleted. Most manuals do not show the vacuum diagrams, every year they changed stuff up is why.

 

If you are deleting all of the smog and A/C stuff, then really the only vac lines you will need off of the manifold will be to the fuel pressure regulator and the MAP sensor if you have one. Otherwise the rest go to the vacuum reserve cannister (which serves the solenoids for the EGR and other smog related stuff) and the A/C system, which you would no longer need.

There should be a diagram under the hood.

 

The blend door for HVAC I would need as well, I found that line and actuator on the firewall a min ago, on top of the blower box.

I would need the Fuel Regulator, check!

I would need the EGR, check!

Im just gonna buy some new rubber lines and run them, I did this with my previous Fords as well, I hate that brittle plastic stuff... In the damn way too!!

Gonna bypass the Throttle body coolant passage.

Replace Upper Radiator hose and T-stat, give it a flush, there is gunky red stuff all caked in the inside of the Radiator, prob head gasket sealer, though there is no signs on either dipstick, oil and trans.

He said he flushed it, hopefully its that stuff left behind or he put Dexcool in it. It turned into a real fine powder, I scooped some out and let it dry.