Tune-up time

89 blue lx

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alrighty guys i am going to tune up my car b4 heading back to school on my list so far is

PCV
fuel filter
oil/filter
seafoam
maybe a new iac or clean it



a few questions about these things tho first i have read about the seafoam and what i understand you put it in through the brake booster, if anyone has any pics of exactly how to do this i would appreciate it, also i have never changed the pcv if anyone has a picture of where this is located and how to change it that would be great too. the iac is another thing i was thinking could be wrong due to my car haveing a surging idle any help cleaning or replacing the iac would be good.


if you guys can think of anything else i should do to this beast b4 leaving would be great. thanks

 

Mustangless

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If I remeber right, when I did my seafoam I disconnected the line on top of the brake booster. There should be a topic about seafoam somewhere on here.

The pcv is on the lower intake in the back. Kind of hard to get to.

do you need spark plugs, cap, rotor, wires?

 

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Your PCV is on the passanger side valve cover near the rear of the block [close to the firewall]. You will find it just feel around with your hand.

As a tune-up I'd change the oil, plug wires, plugs, distributer cap, distributer rotor, clean your air filter [and the air box], flush your radiator [i can't remember doing this], rotate tires, and then put 2 bottles of lucas fuel injector cleaner in with half a tank of gas. I know you're suppost to use 1 to a full tank, but 2 in half a tank really cleans your injectors.. Just don't do it too often.

 

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yeah i did the wires cap rotor not to long ago and i just replaced my radiator and water pump so im sure the coolant is fine

 

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zZsKyZz said:

Your PCV is on the passanger side valve cover near the rear of the block [close to the firewall]. You will find it just feel around with your hand.

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Im pretty sure that the PCV is in the back of the lower intake manifold not the valve cover.

 

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MustangGT95

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WhiteDevil said:

Im pretty sure that the PCV is in the back of the lower intake manifold not the valve cover.

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It is. Most cars have them right on the valve cover but not ours.

 

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MustangGT95 said:

It is. Most cars have them right on the valve cover but not ours.

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cool, good to know. now as for the seafoam, should i do 1/3 in the gas tank 1/3 in the oil and 1/3 in the brake booster? i would like to know exactly what vac line to put it in if anyone has a pic of it or anything. thanks for the help guys`

 

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http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?t=618814&highlight=seafoam

try that

 

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how about cleaning the IAC? does anyone have any pictures of where it is located and what to use to clean it with?