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I have to admit that its hard to part with something that has been a reliable part of your life for so long, but my Sport Trac is needed elsewhere. I complained in church to the pastor that we have too many vehicles, and we probably ought to get rid of one or two. Immediately one of the girls...

Well, after 15 years and 385,000 miles under my 260 lbs, the driver's side seat cushion in my Sport Trac is dead. It's been talking to me the past couple of weeks, but sitting in heavy traffic for two hours this morning really brought it home. Anyone know of a source for new seat padding?

Well, we have a new addition to the family. My son just turned 16, and needs a car. Another family member had a 2001 Mustang he was looking to part with, so we came to an agreement. So now my son is the proud owner of a bright green 2001 Mustang, v6 manual. It has power seats so I can fit...

Ok, here is a weird thought. With all of the thoughts about engine swaps and suspension upgrades, has anyone considered just swapping the Sport Trac body onto a 2004-2010 F150 frame? That way you automatically get the heavier suspension, v8 engine, and wider track. The short bed single cab has...

[Broken External Image]: Well, I recently reached a new milestone with my Trac. I recently started a new job 180 miles from our house, and I have to drive it every week, and home on weekends. Have to move there before too long. On the way up last week I noticed I had crossed a milestone, so...

I have to admit that at 320,000 miles, I've only changed the plugs once, at 129,000 miles. At about 240,000 miles I bought another set, but after losing one job, finding another that was rather high stress (long late night phone conferences?), losing that one, then finding another and finding...

Just saw this little ad pop up on Yahoo motors. 2011 Ranger with 5.0 Coyote engine in it. Now, who wants to be the first Sport Trac?

My AC recently died, which in Houston weather is not much fun. I recharged it and it lasted about a week. I bought a little Freon sniffer to find the leak, and it said the leak was at the port I just charged it at. Well, the probably should be Freon there when I just charged it up, so I...

Well, I made it to another milestone. 300k on the original drivetrain![Broken External Image]:

Well, I had to replace the radiator a couple of weeks ago. It was hard to pin down where the leak was, so I had to wait a couple of times for things to dry up. While I was waiting, though, I looked at that annoying armrest that had been broken clean off for a couple of months, and decided...

I changed out the thermostat housing a couple of weeks ago, and while I was getting that done I noticed a plastic bag under the intake manifold. It seemed to be inflated and fitted to the space under the intake runners. What in the heck is it?

Ok, you were right about the Monroe SensaTracs. They really are that much better than the stock shocks or Monroe-matics (stock shocks from Monroe). I just replaced my dead and leaking Monroe-matics with SensaTracs, and it's a seriously better shock. It is stiffer, but it just comes across...

There is a strip of rubber that's supposed to sit just inside the trim at the bottom of my rear window that started coming loose and sticking out whenever the window was rolled up. When I rolled it down it would roll back up inside the space it was supposed to go, but not straight. Then the...

Came back to the Trac last night after going through the Festival of Lights at Moody Gardens on Galveston Island to find one of the windows broken out and my wife's purse gone. They also took a bag with some of my son's HotWheels and a cheap calculator. She only had a few dollars in it, and...

Finally got around to lower ball joints this weekend. Had a lot of fun getting the right one out. The remover/installer tool I got from AutoZone wouldn't budge it and started to bend, so I got mad with a 2 lb sledge hammer and it popped right out! Going in was a lot easier. But lining up the...

Just a few pictures of one of my latest "projects", moving the pieces of five 60' tall pine trees that succumbed to bark beetles. I had them cut down, and I cut them up and hauled them off, one bed load at a time. I got a little "help" from a couple of friends, as well. One of them is visible...

I want to use a high power converter inside the Trac to power my wife's asthma nebulizer, which turns her asthma medicine into a fog so she can breathe it in. I have a 400 watt converter that will barely power it, and a 700 watt converter that has power to spare, but either one will blow the 20...

I had to take five 50-60 ft pine trees down in my back yard recently. Bugs killed them and I didn't want them hitting the house. They are currently cut up and I am taking them to a dump site near work to dispose of them one bed load at a time. The manager at our jobsite said he wanted some...

I don't know who was asking about it, and I forgot about it until this weekend when I took the cover off the throttle body, but here is the method I used to repair the cruise control cable connection to the throttle linkage. I used a pair of zip-ties, crossed around the boss and then around the...

I just rotated the tires this weekend. Looking at the Trac I realized that it was leaning towards the driver's side. Now, all comments about the size of the driver aside, this is odd. But, with torsion bars, it is fixable. So I measured the same point left and right, front wheelwell lip in...