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PI INTAKE SWAP(HOT!!!!)

From 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis, documented by Not_Grandpas_Marquis.

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1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 12: Remove the 2 10mm bolts that holds the thermostat housing in place. Remove the thermostat housing, bolts, and spacers. DO NOT REMO… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 13: Remove the Idle Air Control Valve wire harness. Remove the Throttle Position Sensor Wire harness. Remove the #7 Fuel injector wire… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Under-hood close-up of a fuel-injected V8 with the injector area exposed, showing orange-topped fuel injectors seated in the rail, a metal… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 8: Remove the intake Zip tube by loosening the hose clamp on the throttle body and removing both the 2 hoses that enter the backside o… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 9,10, and 11 Remove the alternator by removing the 2 10mm bolts underneith the alternator. Set alternator aside and leave the 2 bolts… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 5: Insert a 1/2 nich drive breaker bar into the tensioner pulley as indicated. Rotate handle clockwise to release tension on the belt.… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 1. Disconnect the battery. You will be removing alot of wiring and dealing with the fuel induction system. 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 2. Remove the fan shroud. This requires the electric fan wires to be disconnected. There is also 2 8mm bolts to remove. one is located… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of an engine bay showing a hand holding a braided fuel injector wiring harness near the fuel injectors and rail; a black 'ENGINE O… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 2. Remove the fan shroud. This requires the electric fan wires to be disconnected. There is also 2 8mm bolts to remove. one is located… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 3: Removing the thermostatic fan will require a pulley wrench. You can get these vehicle specific but I opted to get the universoal wr… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 4: Using the pulley wrench, loosen 2 of the 10mm bolts holding the pulley to the water pump(DO NOT REMOVE). then rotate the pulley wre… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 6: Follow all of the spark plug wires back from each cylinder and label the coilpack locations. Also mark the top of the plug boot at… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up down into an engine bay at the rear of the intake with the throttle linkage removed, showing the bare bracket, EGR valve and its t… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Step 7: With the Alternator bracket unbolted, you now have easier access to the alternator wiring. Remove the 10mm nut and remove the wire.… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - OK, so my prybar was an actual crowbar!!! I figured this pump had NEVER been removed and it was gonna be a PITA. I recomend once the pump i… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Tight overhead shot into an engine bay showing two exposed bracket bolts standing up out of the black plastic intake manifold runners, one… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of a bare cylinder head deck on an engine still in the car, with the intake side machined surface, a green plastic locator/dowel s… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Tight close-up down into an engine valley beneath an intake manifold, showing a coolant crossover hose with a spring-band clamp and bright… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of the front engine cover with a circular machined coolant passage opening, ringed with rust-colored coolant staining and secured… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Looking down into the engine valley with the coolant tube and its nipple removed, showing the ribbed cast valley floor stained with coolant… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up inside a stripped V8 engine valley with the intake removed, showing green coolant residue, a yellow paint mark on the block and a… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Tight engine-bay close-up of a black plastic sensor/actuator housing on its bracket with the DPFE unit unbolted, showing the freed nipple,… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of an engine bay showing a black plastic secondary air injection or vacuum-operated component mounted near the radiator support, w… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Composite V8 intake manifold flipped over on an orange cart to show the underside, with fresh orange port gaskets and blue coolant crossove… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of an EGR valve mounted in an engine bay, with a red arrow and the annotation "EGR Valve Removal Point" pointing at the rusty tube… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - A spiral-flute screw extractor with a hex drive end lies on a weathered red picnic table next to the short brass coolant nipple it backed o… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of a fuel rail and high-pressure fuel line connections in an engine bay, showing metal fuel lines, quick-disconnect fittings, and… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Engine bay with the intake manifold removed, leaving the fuel rails still bolted in place with eight yellow-topped injectors hanging free o… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up of an aluminum cylinder head's intake face with the manifold off, showing three D-shaped intake ports, carbon staining, coolant cr… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Looking straight into the four-bolt throttle-body flange of a removed cast aluminum intake plenum, showing the smoothed, port-matched inlet… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Removed cast aluminum upper intake elbow and throttle body assembly sitting on a red-painted wooden deck, still wearing its Ford Motorcraft… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Engine bay viewed from the front with the black composite V8 intake manifold unbolted and ready to lift out, mounting studs standing up and… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - V8 engine bay with the intake manifold pulled off, exposing the open cylinder head intake ports on both banks and the green coolant residue… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Composite V8 intake manifold removed from the engine and set on an orange creeper or cart, viewed from the front so the aluminum crossover… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Two composite intake manifolds with cast aluminum end rails set side by side on a hexagonal-tile floor for comparison, showing the differin… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - A removed black metal coolant crossover tube with two bolt-flange mounting tabs, a barbed hose nipple and a threaded fitting at the top end… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - A hand holds an intake manifold gasket edge-on against a white bench to show its flat sealing plane and the small molded locating tab protr… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - A black plastic upper intake manifold seated on a cast-aluminum lower intake, resting on a red wood bench outdoors. A green two-wire temper… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Top view of a black composite V8 intake manifold in the engine bay with the upper elbow and throttle body removed, leaving an orange gasket… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Overhead view into an engine bay showing the cast aluminum throttle body and upper intake elbow, with the EGR vacuum regulator disc stamped… 1997 Mercury Grand Marquis - Close-up down onto the cast aluminum upper intake elbow and throttle body in an engine bay, with the Ford oval and part label on the thrott…