Oh, sweet dammit. Been meaning to add something here forever.
The "list" has been much larger than expected. I kind of wanted to make a project thread, but damned. I spent 3 weeks putting out fires and making headway to driveability land. Took a week off. Insured it. It's on the road, still with issues.
Fixed/replaced dealt with: in no discernible order.
Rack and pinion. Dorman? part autozone. Shot from running without fluid.
Powster pump. Same as above.
Powster return line, rusted thru. Caused the above.
Powster pressure line. Because well. Derp. Why not.
ABS/Traction off light/messages. Seemed to be dirty/oxidized connector at the abs pump. Still have a flaky wheel sensor on the driver front. Edit: nope still bad, FIXED. Negative battery ground to the inner fender corroded. See Below.
HUD way low/not visible. Pulled dash cover. Took unit apart. New hole for mirror spring. Kinda fixed. Rebuilt Console Control wheel. HUD good as new.
Pass rear trailing arm. Bent !? U shaped channel sides were touching about 9 inches from the body mount, arm bent "up" 1.5 inches. Ditched? Jumped a parking block? Some jackass jacked the car up on it? Straightened it up on the press at work, then whacked it with a "ford wrench" to shock it. Good as new.
Rear Brake pads. Ceramics autozone parts. No squeaks.
Semi Frozen rear caliper pins, both sides. Freed, cleaned, wire brushed, regreased. Oh look. The brakes work.
Painted Rear Brake calipers Red. Why not? Better than oxidized aluminum.
Leaky front coolant elbow. Not seating. Aluminum. Erh? You don't suppose... YUP. Removed 1/4 inch of old plastic coolant elbow from intake. 1 coolant leak down.
Lower Intake Manifold gaskets. 2nd coolant leak fixed. Felpro.
Upper IM. Yup. Yuck. Felpro. Series 3 Aluminum Upper. Not leaking from egr or melted. Sweet.
Beast wouldn't warm up. Thermostat. 185 deg. Drilled small 1/16 in hole in the rim away from the gasket. Should help bleeding. Fixed.
Stock single CD player. No display, not taking a cd. Took bastard out/apart. 20 bucks got a crappy similar unit from my fav graveyard. Swapped out player unit. Someone had removed a jammed disk with what appeared to be air tools and a bad attitude. Got replacement bulbs from Radio Shack. I still have one of those here. 5 bad bulbs. Head unit good as new. Then, added aux input jack to the faceplate. Stole the leads from the XM unit. Sweet phone tunes. Keeping the stock unit for hud/steering wheel controls. And stealth. Accumulating stereo parts. 3 amps, sub and wires from a past vehicle. Nothing too crazy... a few 100 watts. o.k., 500 per but whatever. Shopping for 6x9's and component 6.5's. Leaning towards Kicker.
To be continued.
