What a week. I got a ton of stuff done to the truck. I bought her a couple of months ago – Black 2003 with 150k. I’ve done a bunch of work before now, but this week I:
Pulled throttle body, blower, and intercooler and…
Cleaned intercooler – soaked for about six hours in Purple Power. Did a good initial job, but the Easy Off oven cleaner really made quick work of the rest of the mess. Replaced gaskets with new OEM Ford gaskets.
Speaking of intercooler, I went to jump the relay to drain the system and found my pump wasn’t running. A tap with a hammer and off she went. Replaced with a new Ford Performance unit. Drained and replaced system with 50/50 Ford Gold.
Cleaned inside of turkey pan and replaced PCV tube assembly – I know the NPT plug mod is what everyone is doing, but I am a “stock guy” so I ordered a new PCV tube assembly. Turns out, the elbow on the pan was absolutely fine. Oh well, replaced anyway. I've got a new LFP oil separator I'll be adding later this week.
Changed plugs and coils – replaced with OEM MotorCraft gapped at .44 and new OEM coils.
Cleaned supercharger and throttle body – same process as intercooler, Purple Power followed up by Easy Off. **** and span. No flaking on the rotor pack.
Replaced supercharger oil - pee yew.
Replaced serpentine belt. Now one of the idlers is squealing, great.
Replaced a lot of hardened vacuum tubing.
Anyway, she runs like new, well worth all the effort!
