Airbox Spring Clips

[GK]

Hi All,

Had a couple of backfires in the SR over the last 3-4 weeks, the most recent being tonight when the Mrs was driving. She got home and I thought I'd better check the airbox to see if all was good.

I found one spring retaining clip was gone, found it though and a few others had lost their tension. I'm assuming the lid had lifted to cause that.

I tried to put them back in but to no avail, as it was very dark outside. I taped down the lid of the airbox (I still have 3 clips in place) with sports strapping tape, so that should get me to the weekend until I can pull the whole box out to check things out.

My question is this. The wagon's airbox (being dual fuel from factory) has springs made from coil springs. The SR was converted later, so the airbox clips are the dual wire type. If I want to replace these with the coil type that's on the wagon, can I just get some from Ford and swap them over? Anyone have an idea on the price?

Cheers,

GK