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Help me identify these two holes / bolts on intake manifold.

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Please take a look at the pictures of my intake manifold. I believe this is a 1975 302. In the pictures the previous owner used the holes to attach a chain for lifting the engine, but after I remove the chain what goes back in those holes, I don't think those are the original bolts. One is towards the front driver side, the other one is towards the back passenger side. They are circled in yellow. I got a number off of it D50E-9425-GA and found a picture on the Internet of one like it, here it is off the engine with the two bolt holes in question circled in yellow, can you guys tell me what goes in those holes?

 
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I am going to guess here, the backside hole is for the clamp that holds the tranny vacuum line, and the front is for the coil clamp.
Let me know if i'm wrong or right.
 
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possibly these holes could be used for engine accessories, but I'm being told they may have been designed simply to hoist the eninge up when it was moving down the assembly line in the factory before being dropped into a vehicle, makes sense
 

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Anything or nothing could go in those holes.

Like my Daddy use to say, just cause theres a hole don't mean your suppose to go sticking things in it.
 

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gregski said:
possibly these holes could be used for engine accessories, but I'm being told they may have been designed simply to hoist the eninge up when it was moving down the assembly line in the factory before being dropped into a vehicle, makes sense
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Thats possible but most Fords I've met had lift brackets on the exhaust manifold bolts.
 

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Ya, one shouldn't be lifting an engine by the intake lol. Good thing it wasn't aluminum lmao!
 

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gregski said:
possibly these holes could be used for engine accessories, but I'm being told they may have been designed simply to hoist the eninge up when it was moving down the assembly line in the factory before being dropped into a vehicle, makes sense
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That's what I was thinking.
 

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king combo said:
Ya, one shouldn't be lifting an engine by the intake lol. Good thing it wasn't aluminum lmao!
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I have done so several times, including with an aluminum intake, with the C4 attached as well. Having the correct lifting tabs installed makes it simple and strong enough to tip the driveline to over 45 degrees with no issues...
 

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I was kind of thinking that too. A lot of vendors sell plates that bolt to the top of aftermarket intake manifolds specifically to use for lifting the motor. I've seen them for EFI intakes too. I tend to use accessory bolt holes in the heads, but mostly because I have a big levelling plate that needs a wider separation front to back.
 
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