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youse guys have autolocking doors ? how unpleasant ;-) guess my previous owner had already disabled that.. along with replacing the plastic thermostat housing, and drive shaft.. I got lucky with this Trac..

aw I'm sorry.. my son is working in Rochester MN, flew back to Minneapolis last Sun and decided not to drive his Subaru through that winter storm at 11pm.. we've had no, 0", snow yet in Denver. I don't miss driving in snow, your pic gave me the shivers.. fight them.. their estimates are...

my single favorite thing to do in my Sport Trac, is to sit on the tailgate after fish/hike/backpack/hunt, and drink a beer looking out over the mountains.. tailgates are great. Gear pick of the year - the tailgate

welcome ! a retired friend of mine has the 2010, his looks like a new truck.. with only 50k miles, yours should be good for another 10-15 years at least..

my 2004 doesn't have any antenna, the rearview is just glued to the glass. I have re-glued mirrors on other cars after cheaping out on new windscreen installs when the installer didn't do a good job of glueing the mirror to the new windshield. Permatex makes a rearview mirror-specific...

I was expecting to have to do this replacement, when replacing the radiator I discovered to my surprise and pleasure that mine already had the metal thermostat housing ;-)

excellent, truck looks really nice..

replaced a bad wheel bearing, front driver side. of course it's never that simple. Shiny bits on the bearing races, not visibly/palpably grooved outer, inner has some wear. I couldn't see much but after putting the new bearing in there and hearing things, the marks are visible on close...

replaced the stock ones with KYB Excel-G front and rear, for a good deal of bad dirt road driving, as well as commuting and long road trips. So far so good, just spent a week of elk hunting beating them up over marginal roads, did well on 8 miles of washboard, which is a real test of everything.

I've used the sealants on: Ford Econoline 150 1982 with the old v6 4.9L engine, for about 3 months until radiator replaced Acura MDX 2006, about three years now my Sport Trac, about 3 months So far no permanent damage noticed in any engine. It's theoretically possible as Todd Z says. The old...

yes, upon poking around I think there isn't enough room inside the cover, for the cheap oil drain plugs to fit. Any homebrew solution will involve welding. I just gave up, cheated and used a mityvac to suck out the old oil ;-) Listed capacity is 5.5 to 5.8 pints, I got just over 6 pints out...

was getting the odd clonk from the front L over bumps and dirt roads etc. It was time to rotate wheels anyway, pulled the wheel off et voila ! Easiest diagnosis in my 45 years of wrenching.. the sway bar is clearly not linked. the bolt had rusted down to about 2/3 of original size, and...

just for completeness - there was a break/short in the wire going back through the chassis to the driver side light. I took it to Pep Boys, they charged $50 for diagnosis and $73 for repair which I thought was fair.. would have taken me a long time to get that done.

thanks - I don't have welding tools, was thinking of something like the Dorman oil drain plug. Guess a new diff cover is cheap anyway, maybe will buy a new one, drill it and fit the plug. That way I have the original cover in case my drilling goes bad.. ha.

thanks, that price is a bit less frightening.. so I can have a Mustang upgrade on my weary old truck, wotthehell, it's as close as I'm getting to driving a Mustang ;-)

found my brake lights weren't working, all 3 of them, two rear and the one up high behind the cab. Parking lights and turn signals are working fine. Reverse lights seem to be out too, not sure if that is related or something different. Replaced bulbs at rear, wasn't that. Checked fuses 32 and...

I find to my astonishment, changing the diff oil requires removing and replacing the cover. There are aftermarket covers with drain plugs for $300-plus, which is a bit rich. Has anyone tried installing one of the basic drain plugs in a standard differential cover ? There are aftermarket...

I've had one of those Bluetooth-to-FM adapters since the day after I got my ST ;-) work surprisingly well, mostly just plug in an old MP3 player for music, rather than the phone. The stock ST radio/CD sounds pretty good, haven't felt the need to replace it yet.

try here, craigslist, fb marketplace - ask $1000 and see what happens. I've seen Sport Tracs with busted engine/transmission sell at that asking price, not sure how much they actually sold for though. Also then you have to deal with Craigslist flakey buyers.. Scrap metal and salvage will pay...

donations used to be a better deal, but people abused the process.. now the tax writeoff is limited to exactly what it sells for at auction. If the car sells for more than $500, then the receipt is your writeoff amount, otherwise it's $500. It's very easy though, most public radio stations...