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Originally Posted by joegr
There is one valve assembly that contains two independent valves, one for the driver's side and one for the passenger's side. The valve assembly is just behind the radiator on the right side. Below the valve assembly is the aux coolant pump. Are you sure that isn't what you had to move?
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It's described in the Ford TSM disk as "the heater water valve and bracket" assembly. Its bracket is mounted on the far right end of the front chassis crossmember by two bolts (Diagram A0001063), which must be removed, and the entire assembly wired aside, just to expose the front-right mounting bolt for the sway bar bushing. (What a design job!)
It's also described in other sections of the manual as the "dual coolant flow valve", which answers my question about there being two of them... There's
no room to work around this thing... The manual says to remove the auxiliary cooling pump first, then disconnect the heater hoses, then unbolt the heater valve from its bracket, and
then remove the bracket. The diagrams are pretty good, but they imply a
lot more room to work than there actually is. I don't know if I'm up to this just 2 months from doing that sway bar bushing job...
