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How to Install Fuel Track Covers - Titanium Argent on Your 2005-2010 Mustang GT

Installation Time

1 hours

Tools Required

8mm Deep Well Socket
10mm Socket
Ratcheting Nut Driver
1/8" Allen Wrench (supplied with kit)
Flathead Screwdriver

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Fuel Rail Covers; Titanium Argent (05-10 Mustang GT)

-Fig 1 shows the stock engine bay before installation of the fuel rail covers. Notation: this car has the factory plenum intake cover with Running Pony Logo that was role of Ford's Appearance Upgrade Package. –Fig two shows the parts included in the kit. Advisedly unpack and inventory the parts for this kit. Notation that the fuel track mounting brackets are stamped "Commuter" and "PASSENGER" to place which side they mount to.

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Cars that came with the factory plenum cover must have the cover removed temporarily when installing the fuel track covers. Apply the 8mm socket to remove the two nuts from the studs at the front of the throttle torso –Fig 3. Pry the rear of the plenum comprehend upwards from the ii studs on each side of the intake near the rear of the cover. The mounting brackets on the plenum encompass have prophylactic insulators that mountain over the intake and throttle body studs. Pull the cover forward and upwards off its mounting points –Fig 4 and safely stow it away until the fuel track covers have been installed, and so reattach it in the reverse order of its removal. The covers easily scratch, so be conscientious handling them. Note that the plenum cover is available from American Muscle as a dissever particular or as part of a kit with the fuel rail covers and/or fuse box cover. At a minimum, the plenum embrace is preferred with the fuel rail covers for aesthetic reasons.

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Remove the engine oil dipstick and set it bated until the fuel rail installation is complete –Fig 5. Next, remove the vacuum tube by pushing on the small end of the green clips and pulling the hose connectors off their mounts –Fig 6. Set the vacuum tube aside to be reinstalled later.

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Pry the wire harness jam clips off the studs located on the cam covers in four placesindicated in –Fig 7. The clips are partially hidden by the large wiring harnesses. The jam clips fit very tightly on the threads of the studs and information technology may be necessary to apply a flat blade screw driver to loosen them and so twist while pulling them up off the studs. Pulling on the large wiring harness also helps gratis the clips –Fig 8.

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Identify the drivers side and rider brackets. Push the passenger side subclass onto the bare studs on the passenger side cam embrace –Fig 9. Make sure the subclass is bottomed out on the cam comprehend. Notation that It may be necessary to coerce the bracket –Fig 10 because the tolerances for centering them on the studs is very tight.

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Gear up the passenger side bracket in place by pushing the jam clips back onto the cam comprehend studs making sure the big wiring harness is positioned inside the bracket –Fig xi. Echo the subclass install procedures for the driver's side ensuring that the bracket is bottomed out on the valve encompass and that the large wiring harness is on the inside of the bracket before replacing the jam clips –Fig 12.

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Identify the two mounting studs –Fig 13 on the rider side intake manifold and pull the jam clips off the studs. Remove the studs using an 8mm socket –Fig fourteen. Exist very careful not to drop the studs or motility the fuel track.

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Install the passenger side fuel rail cover (it has ii mounting tabs) by adjustment the holes on the cover with the threaded holes on the outside of the stainless bracket. Attach the passenger side comprehend using two 10-32x3/eight" screws and the supplied Allen wrench –Fig fifteen. The threads are fairly pocket-sized and so exist careful not to cross thread them. Next, align the mounting tabs over the intake manifold threaded holes and then reinstall the studs –Fig 16. Do not over tighten the studs equally the cover is made of a composite that can crack if the studs are over-torqued.

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To install the driver'due south side fuel runway encompass, several more than things must exist moved out of the style. Disconnect the mass air sensor harness by sliding the red tab towards the firewall and pulling the harness connectors apart –Fig 17. The air box and duct must be removed past loosening the clamp closest to the throttle torso with an 8mm socket and disconnect the vent hose from the air duct by pushing on the dark-green locking tab –Fig xviii. Unfasten the air box by removing the bolt on the fender using a 10mm socket –Figs nineteen & 20. Remove the unabridged air box and duct assembly and prepare them bated.

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Rotate the fuel runway coupling clip to give the most clearance for the fuel runway cover –Fig 21. Do non remove whatever fuel lines! Locate the 1 stud on the driver' side intake manifold and carefully remove it
–Fig 22.

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Very cautiously, slide the driver's side fuel rail encompass into place to align the two holes with the threaded holes on the bracket. It will take some maneuvering while pushing wires and hoses out of the way to position the encompass correctly. Over again, be careful not to scratch the cover. Repeat the same zipper procedures as the rider side (insert two x-32x3/8" screws to attach the embrace to the subclass –Fig 23) except only i stud is used to concord the cover to the intake manifold –Fig 24.

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Finish the project by re-installing the air box and duct (be certain to re-connect the vent hose and mass air sensor on the duct). Re- install the vacuum hose and oil dip stick –Fig 25. Reverse the removal procedure for the plenum cover and secure information technology by replacing the three jam clips on the intake studs and the two nuts on the throttle trunk studs. Congratulations! The finished installation should look like –Fig 26.

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Figure 26

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