Okay, I just asked a Ford technician, and the intake manifold does have to come off to replace the cam sensor. He said there's no way to snake it in there.
And one other thing, if you have to do all this, be careful with any current sensor on the battery, some people don't know how sensitive they are or not knowing what they are. They are usually part of the negative battery terminal, they will look something like this, or some Fords have one that goes around the battery cable to measure current flow, but when you unbolt one of these, undue to battery terminal nut and not that top nut. These are often damaged because people are unaware of it. They have a small circuit board inside and are very important to the charging system. Just wanted to let you know because the service info has you undue both positive and negative cables off the battery, I think.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 AT 1:12 PM