I have been driving Fords since my 1992 Ranger STX 4x4 and recently picked up a "woods" truck. Bought some property to hunt on and it has a sand road about a mile long for access. Needless to say, my 2014 Fusion Hybrid does not like that drive, it just about plowed the road with its spoiler.

I picked up a 1994 E150 Club Wagon Chateau with 296,000 miles on it that runs great.

It was pretty dirty and the suspension needs some work. Spent the first day with a bucket and sponge and vacuum cleaner to get the interior useable. Its in pretty good shape insides, can't seem to get good sound through the speakers and some of the interior lights don't work but overall its OK.

Had a leaking freeze plug that was easily fixed with Blue Devil Stop Leak and (since it is a 5.0) has a rear main seal leak. I switched to 20W-50 and it slowed way down. Going to try Blue Devils main seal restorer, but am not holding my breath, I can live with a few drops a day.

So far, I have replaced the passenger side rear tail light lens (wouldn't pass inspection with a big hole in it), both headlight lenses (real cloudy) and the grille, which I broke taking it out to try to find the anti-freeze leak. Every body panel has some kind of dent in it, I guess the previous owner didn't like straight steel!

I also put 4 new shocks on it and so far replaced the drivers side radius rod bushings. Need to do the passenger side and then replace the sway bar bushings. After a front end alignment, it should be like new.

I must admit, I really hate the mixed metric/English hardware on this vehicle...

Anything I really need to look out for with this vehicle?

 

Hi Doc,
I would put a water pump on it before anything else unless it is new. The worst part of my 88 van restoration was that pump replacement. Those long bolts going through the water passages were the 2nd worst idea after the rear main seal.

Total agreement in the mixed bag of metric/English system. Smog stuff, suspension stuff from Canada, all metric. jim

 

Thanks, Jim

I will look into a water pump.

 

LOL......I have a 2010 Fusion, and a 02 E150 for real world driving.......