There are a ton of sport tracks in the junkyards … with excellent steering wheels….for twenty bucks…..you need a wheel puller… cause they are really hard to get off…plus a t50 … nobody ever takes the steering wheels..might add plenty of used alternators in excellent shape and starters for about...
In the future.., buy the s/t with problems. Bad motor or tranny. From someone selling it cheap on line… if the body is 100 percent rust free.
Now you can drop 5 grand into truck….FOR THE LONG HAUL…10 years keeping it….if not… buying a semi new jeep….with payments. May be your best option…
As for milling the heads…my mechanic mills the heads…and sometime double head gaskets the heads…..got one with two head gaskets 40 k going strong … as crazy as it sounds..did the double head gasket. 4 years ago. $700 dollars… he assured me it was going to work…I was skeptical…and not crazy about...
The little thermostate hose under the thermostat housing blew on the interstate last week … and in thirty seconds the head gasket was blown..
Looking back. The hose was swelled up. And should have be replaced…
Just a warning
The 5 speeds s/t were made 2001/2003 that’s it …3 years they are extremely rare….one out of a 100.. but the trannys are not. Same manually tranny 2003 and up in the Ranger…
They’re indestructible if you don’t run them out of oil…if you’re loco…and young. You can put a manually in the s/t from...
Junkyard usually got plenty. And it lets you practice on how to get it out without destroying your truck
Also check which ford trucks cars use the same window …there may be a match.
Well you got me beat
5 2001 s/t s. 2 manual bought all with bad motors or trannys
Totally rebuilt
2 sports. Cheap. Grand each
Sports were so cheap running I could
not turn them down on Craig’s list
2000 Chevy conversion van
Every thing got 250 plus
Florida. Zero zero zero rust.
I like...
Guy in Spring Hill Fla….above tampa
Rebuilts engine upper half… has to take engine out… or you can can take it out … same money….$1400. I have had 3 engines done….very good work
That’s all he does 4.0 ohc
Eddie. 352. 340 6208.
Just a option
My number. 407 516 5133. Chris