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Vent: That time I spent 3 hours fighting with a simple cold air intake swap
I got a new cold air intake for my 2018 F150 last weekend and thought it would be a quick 45 minute job. Boy was I wrong. The MAF sensor connector was stuck so bad I thought I was going to break the whole damn thing. I sprayed it with WD-40, tried prying it with a flathead, even watched three different YouTube videos hoping someone had the same issue. Turns out there was a little plastic tab I missed that needed to be pushed in from the side. Took me almost 3 full hours to figure that out and my knuckles were all scraped up. Anyone else run into a stupid little thing like that on an intake job that should have been easy?
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xena13mo ago
Not trying to be pedantic but WD-40 isn't really the move for electrical connectors like that, you want dielectric grease or contact cleaner. That plastic tab thing though, classic Ford engineering right there.
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henderson.wesley3mo ago
Tried dielectric grease before myself and it worked okay, but how do you keep it from attracting every speck of road grime that exists in a 50 mile radius?
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