taurus

I hate taurus, I had to swap many engine on those, and countless head gaskets.

i got a 98 mercury sable basically the same car.    about ready to cut it up for scrap and maybe sell a few parts off.

the north east winters took a tole on this one,  if the sub structures weren't so gone we probably wouldn't be scraping it out.   we were jacking it up and the jack whent right threw everything   and stopped at the floor. we just couldnt let something this bad go back out  on the road

ilyes wrote: I hate taurus, I had to swap many engine on those, and countless head gaskets.

My wife had a 98 Taurus. What a nightmare. Leaked oil, leaked gas, transaxle was going bad....just endless. I would rather have a Maverick, Fairmont, or Granada than one of those damn things. 

Hmmm. I liked every Taurus and Sable I ever had. Maybe just my luck or that I got good ones...

'90 Sable (bought in '92 and kept in family 4 years - outstanding highway car)
'86 5speed 4 cyl Taurus - good basic car that ran, gave it to a friend.
(2) '92 Sables bought in '94 - kept 1, sold the other, great car
'95 SHO - This car would make you feel like Superman, felt like I lost a pal when I sold it. Still miss it.
'93 SHO - chipped, head work, exhaust, SVT parts - scary fast, knew I better sell it before it got me a ticket.
'89 Taurus - bought for $50, spent $50 for repairs, sold it, lady still driving it.
'95 SE Taurus - nice highway car, 3.8 engine ran well.
'95 Frankenwagon - Taurus wagon with a 5.7 Vortec, 700R, 9 inch. Ran and drove, but all of us were scared to trust it on the road. Horrifically fast and dangerous. Completely our fault it ever existed, and decided to dismantle it so no one got hurt. Cannot blame Ford for that one.

Loved those Yamaha V6 engines. My '95 was white with grey leather - great sleeper. The '93 was Arrest Me Red with tan leather. Couldn't have picked a worse color SHO to build. However, while the heads were off, we polished the intake and valve covers and detailed the non-chrome hardware with red highlights. What a beautiful massive engine. Even stock, they were a sight to behold - in case anyone has never seen one.

My 88 MT-5 runs, but needs CV joints, a MAP sensor, and the climate control panel is completely dead. I understand the ignition switch (the flaming one) is the cause of that. So I need a new one of those. Of course I only paid $250 for it back in '04. So I'm pretty well satisfied. Plus no tranny issues since it's a 5-speed. I like it anyway. Of course I have 11 other cars to use too.

converter seals like to puke when they get warm/hot don't leak as bad  cold/cooler.

 Are you sure you got the correct switch?the most common problem with this set up is dust settles down in the multifunction switch,and when you use the hazards and then try to shut them off,it screws up the circuitry for the signals.try taking an air hose and blow air around the hazard switch while rapidly pushing the hazard switch on and off.then try and see if the signals now work.most of the time I can get them working again withhout installing a new switch.Tricks of the trade,let me know how ya make out.John

THAT'S FUNNY!!

Robbdtme wrote: Trying a ford part vs a fleabay generic one today. one of my best friends owns a huge junkyard here so picked a few off off Ford Taurus's. Told here she now has a Furcury Table.

The real ford part worked her blinkers are back.

Now yesterday she called and said it was making a noise and will not go over 15mph. Found the noise which was a electrical sensor egr related something to the tune of a exhaust pressure sensor but from reading unrelated to the loss of power. Even in neutral it revs to 4000 rpm for about half a second then rpms drop fast and lots of exhaust smoke. After a fews hours checking everything I have a feeling the fuel pressure is low although that was about the only thing I had not checked as I had hung up looking at it by that time last night.

She loves the car, Myself I will personally love to hit the crush button on it at the junkyard....

This has the 3.8. Reg distributer single cam single coil. Kind of ruled out timing chain or overhead timing belts coil packs no crank sensor on it. Starts and idles perfect and does rev at first then sputters and rpm drops. After a few seconds even matted to the floor rpms are maybe 800-1300 only with major exhaust smoke. Limp Mode usually uses multiple coil packs and fires alternating cylinders at least the ones I am familiar with. Anyway  thanks for the replies probably be tinkering some more on it this weekend. Looking like I will be flying out to Florida for work next week so hopefully figure it out before then.
At least the other half has been having fun driving the F150 king cab long box 4x4 5.4 triton to work lately, She has a 70 mile round trip and the truck gets 8-10 mpg but no squeeking yet about 28 bucks in gas a day .


Edited by Robbdtme - 28-September-2012 at 6:35AM