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So I picked up a project from a friend for free. '00 Mercury Mountaineer (Ford Explorer) V8 awd 144k.
Gal hit a rock trying to avoid a crash, her loss my gain! Slight frame damage, needs new control arm. few new parts and some heat, welding, big hammer it'll be A-OK.
It was a close one, butthe truck was done Wednesday about noon and we started the trip to Va beach for Thanksgiving. Traffic sucked...we averaged 20mph for the first 6 hours. What should have been a 4 hour trip, turned into an 8 hour trip.
Took the travel trailer with parked it in the driveway at our destination. Trucked did great with the new intercooler. Mpgs averaged slightly higher in the way down then what they were last trip before it broke. My egts are even noticeably lower as well.
Broke the 300k mark on the trip...pics or it didn't happen, right?
Nah, the torsion bar is good from what I can tell, bend the control arm mounts back and put a new lower control arm on it, should be good as new! Figure i'll do the upper control arms (ball joints already installed) also since i'll have it apart then get an alignment. few hundred bucks she should be driving like it was a month ago.
Have not decided what i'm gonna do with it, if it works out I may keep it for my little project. Thinking maybe lowered this time....
Caliper froze up, got hot, slide pin boot burned up, didn't get to brake line, was just trying to be brief! Slide pins all free and lubed, caliper compressed easily, I'm thinking rubber lines are getting bad and collapsing. Waiting on the Russel kit!
Truck was leaking fuel from the top filter area so I went ahead and did the blue spring mod seeing it came with the necessary o-rings. The truck in theory should hold a constant 60lbs of pressure in the fuel system.
Excellent YouTube video on how to change / fix it. By the time I pulled tools out and cleaned up after the job, 1 hour total time.
Picture of the leak at the bottomn of the fuel supply.
Did the rear wheel wells before the snow and salt come. This stuff made the rear wheel wells look brand new. Paid about 9 $ for it at a hardware store. 3 small tips. <br/> <br/>1 . Wear gloves<br/>2 work outside<br/>3. Use painters blue tape to mask off the edge of plastic , cladding and step.
Wow, day after Turkey Day and it's 60 degrees in NH. Why does the gummit say they want to fight global warming ??? This is the best thing ever ! Gave the Ex a wash, chamois, and detail wax. Juiced up the tires and black plastic trim.
11-26-2015, 10:03 PM
work outside<br/>3. Use painters blue tape to mask off the edge of plastic , cladding and step.
