Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by Kolton Lock

What do you mean... Over run.... :sly:

Lol my 95 is at just under 217. If I could drive it to and from school and on deliveries I'd be sitting at roughly 225 right now. So maybe its a good thing that its broke down lol

Mine needs a bath... maybe today. Scheduled a little over a week with no rainy weather so I may treat her today after work. Been about 2-3 months since she got a good cleaning, weather won't co-operate.

Cut out the spots on the quarters that need to be patched and welded a spot on the back panel where it cracked when I was using the Morgan Knocker slide hammer to pull it out a little more




also laid long strand body filler on bottom patch of driver fender

Originally Posted by Bluemagic

Washed her for a change

She is truly a beautiful piece of machinery

uhm lets see, imma be fixing the sunroof again, wanna re-wire for another dts1500.1, trying to decide if i wanna add batts or look for bigger alt!

flushed moms heater core in her turd Taurus. my arms look like i played with 4 very playful kittens while i was drunk. aka i got torn up. even bled a bit.

have i mentioned how much i hate fords?

this car has the dumbest heater core plumbing known to man. theres a loop in the plumbing, so if the core clogs up there's no direct pressure, the coolant will just bypass the core. how dumb is that?

Ford: Plumbing was job 1

I know how that is scott. I had a girl tell me her car had no heat I looked at it and said I'll get to it when it gets colder out then she traded it off in November.

well this girl was my mother, so i had to get it done. lol she dont drive much any more but when it was 15 deg out she had a Dr.'s appointment and had to go out, she calls me up to say she has "NO" heat!

today was about the nicest day here in 2 weeks now, so today was it. good thing it worked or id be really pissed off. ever see what it takes to get the core out? it sucks for sure. you need to unbolt the whole dash and pull it back, cut a bracket off, then slide the core out.

I'd junk the car first it's just a taurus lol

Originally Posted by dsmuts

I'd junk the car first it's just a taurus lol

the truth is its been a good car, other then tires, brakes and regular fluid changes, its had no break downs at all. old lady driven of course.

the only thing it does need soon is the cam synchronizer replaced, its chirping up a storm.

another great ford deal, i can see the meeting now. lets make it electronic ignition, but lets take the old school cam shaft, cut the top off, then put a cam sensor on the top of it!!! then some other dick says, HEY lets also still use it to turn the oil pump too, then we' can use a bushing instead of a bearing, so it wears out and chirps loudly, then throws a code and fails to run.


a few harrumphs later and the ford 3.0 was born. assholes.

Better get that swapped soon or she'll spin a bearing. I've seen it done a few times and the one guy tried to tell me its only been making that noise for a day or so......yeah....right

she dont drive it much so it will wait for warmer weather, i seen a vid how to change it. dont look to bad really. maybe a hr tops. you just need to mark it and drop the new one in the same way the old one came out.


oh the good old days of finding tdc of cyl 1 then dropping the distributor in and making sure the rotor pointed to plug wire # one on the cap. good times lol

It took me about 45 min the first time since i wasnt sure what all needed moved out of the way. You'll be surprised how easy it is.

yeah, its right there just waiting to be worked on. i gave it good look over today. not much in the way at all.