Easy Trick To Install Throttle Body Spacer
05 SatinSylvia said:
Hey guys is it tough to install a throttle body spacer? It does not seem like it would be hard. I have the K&N CAI. Im looking at the JET Performance TBS
Thanks
Hi 05SatinSylvia,
I installed a JET Performance TBS on my 05 GT. It is fairly easy to install. However, to avoid stripping the threads I called my brother who worked for years as a pipe-fitter and helped me do a quick and clean job with a little technique he figured out over the years.
The throttle body is held in by four threaded rods. These screw into the air intake and then nuts are tightened on the rods to hold the throttle body to the air intake housing. This can be a problem for retro-fitting a spacer such as the JET Performance TBS. Several posters here and in other Mustang forums have stripped the threads on their rods and had to either buy new rods or replace them with bolts. But there is a simple solution in 9 easy steps:
1. Remove the nuts from 2 of the rods.
2. Loosen the 2 remaining nuts to about half an inch from the end of their rods.
3. Add a second nut to each of the 2 loosened nuts.
4. Tighten them together using two wrenches and twisting them towards each other: Presto, you've just created a home-made temporary bolt.
5. Unbolt the 2 rods from the air intake housing and remove the rods.
6. Once these 2 first rods are removed, loosen and remove the nuts and place them as above on the 2 remaining rods.
7. Once you have postioned the throttle body spacer against the air intake as indicated by the manufacturer, screw in as far as you choose the two rods with double nuts, using them as home-made bolts .
8. Afterwards remove the 4 nuts and tighten them together at the end of the 2 remaining rods in order to insert them too.
9. Once all rods are in place, put one nut on each rod and screw them all down to permanently fasten the throttle body + spacer to the air intake housing.
Hope this helps. It sounds complicated but when you do it this is about as simple as it gets. Nothing ever risks harming the threads of your stock rods, the only extra tools required are 2 wrenches instead of one.
Cheers,
/Vic