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Author Topic: Tube touching header!?!?!?!?!? 90FoX FoX Member # 1974 posted 2002-12-11 02:54 PM                              i dont know what the tube does or its name but on the passenger side of my 90 5.0 a metal tube comes from the firewall and bends straight down then bends back toward the radiator it is sitting right on the header. i tried to pull on it but dont want to do something regretable so i want to know how i seperate it and bend it so it wont touch the header anymore. any ideas on tools which i could use ?? please help?!? Posts: 5364 | From: Shooting Skeet | Registered: Oct 2002  |  : 90FoX FoX Member # 1974 posted 2002-12-11 02:56 PM                              p.s. i mean seperate thit from e tube coming out of the fire wall which it 'seems' it is connected to Posts: 5364 | From: Shooting Skeet | Registered: Oct 2002  |  : JoeT ¯ Member # 298 posted 2002-12-11 03:19 PM                                 A/C line? Use a pipe bender! -------------------- 1984 Ford Tempo AOD--- RIP Posts: 6785 | From: San Jose | Registered: Jun 2001  |  : 90FoX FoX Member # 1974 posted 2002-12-11 03:20 PM                              im not shure if it is an ac line Posts: 5364 | From: Shooting Skeet | Registered: Oct 2002  |  : TOPnotch ¯ Member # 1340 posted 2002-12-11 07:45 PM                              If it is the a/c condencer line it should have some black insulation on it. And if I remember right there are some plastic clips that hold it to the fender well. They might be broken? -------------------- The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgoten!!! 1QWKCHP 1QWKDRP Posts: 2255 | From: Hayward | Registered: May 2002  |  : 93ex-chp ¯ Member # 1688 posted 2002-12-11 08:28 PM                              I think your talkin about a smog tube.. its connected to the block i think.. shouldnt be a big deal to just put a pry bar in there and get it off the header.. Posts: 267 | From: san leandro | Registered: Aug 2002  |  : Gear Head JARED Member # 779 posted 2002-12-12 07:59 AM                              Zip ties hold pipes in place -------------------- Support our troops! Posts: 5685 | From: EASTBAY | Registered: Jan 2002  |  : 90FoX FoX Member # 1974 posted 2002-12-12 01:51 PM                              thankz for the ideas . it acutally is a ac line and i found a loop bracket which i will wrap around it and drill against the fender to hold Posts: 5364 | From: Shooting Skeet | Registered: Oct 2002  |  :

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