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Bought the truck, a 1996 F150, 4.9 I6 manual, and this component seems to be there in most of the trucks of a similar year. The wire broke and trying to figure out the importance of what this is?
Last edited by Michael Nguyen; Mar 30, 2021 at 05:47 PM.
Reason: Needed to state the vehicle
It's the fresh/recirculate vacuum motor. If you leave that vacuum line (it's not a wire) broken, the A/C will switch to the defrost registers temporarily when you hold the gas pedal down.