Air Injection Pump

Hello all,

I am the proud owner of my first Ford. An 86 F-250 5.8L

The air pump is missing... Anything fancy to take care of when replacing it? I did some reading of other posts and there was mention that the air pump missing could cause my idle to be high - which it is...

Any thoughts??

thx.

my 89 lost its air pump 10 years ago. no ill problems. all it does it pump air into the exhaust system to hep burn up excess fumes before the catalic converter.

any idea if I would pass Canadian emmisions tests without it??

If its an 86 you wont need e-tests in Jan of 2006.