SPOUT shorting bar location on V8 5L. Can't find the blasted thing.

Ford Explorer 1999 Ford Explorer Limited  196000 miles
I'm trying to check for anything obvious that could cause my problem right now. The car jerks and stumbles really badly while going down the road with light pressure on the accelerator. I've changed the spark plugs, wires, and one of two coil packs. I may need to change the other one, but I want to check the base timing first. Therefore, I need to find the shorting bar.
There is a small part (Ford no. F6AF-18801-AA) attached to a coil mounting screw. This is NOT it! Lots of folks on the web have misidentified this RFI cap as the SPOUT shorting bar.
If anyone out there has a 99 Exploder with AWD and a 5L V8 and KNOWS where the SPOUT SB is located, please post a photo of it. Those Haynes photos are, so far, at least, useless. They're not always clear, and there's absolutely nothing -- not even so much as an open cable connector -- where their photo shows it to be.
I'm thinking that maybe Ford hid it somewhere later in the production run of that year because so many people were disconnecting it, thinking it's purpose is to determine the fuel octane level you can burn in the engine. And that causes too many warranty claims for them.
Maybe a Chitlins manual would have a photo. I don't know. They're about equally useless.
Otra vez chingado! from United States 7 years ago  
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