Air Injection Pump

[divemaster]

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.

[steve11]

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.

[divemaster]

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

[g2driver]

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