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I am helping out a woman I work with fix her car. She has a 2000 Mustang (3.8L 6) with a rusted out fuel filler pipe (part # 3R3Z-9034-AA). She has very little money, lives alone, and can't pay the $300+ needed to get this fixed. I am helping her out by doing the labor, but I was...

Finally got back home from helping out in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sucks because I was all packed up to go to Kentucky for the ST meeting and got the frantic call from family in Iowa. Spent alot of time wading through the nastiest water you can imagine - polluted with oil/fuel, sewage, and...

The weather people are forecasting up to 9 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow for the Chicago area. WOOHOO! Got the ST gassed up and ready to play tomorrow. :D Supposed to be back to 50 by Tuesday, but at least the weekend will be fun.

I hit a deer this morning on my way to work. I was only doing about 30 mph, hit it broadside and launched it about 15-20 feet. Felt like I hit a tree. It was too dangerous to stop where I was so I waited to check out the ST once I got to work (and in the light). Other than bits of fur stuck...

Woohoo! Got the OK from my cruise director (aka wife) to register for the June Louisville meet! :D Now I just have to figure out which nights we are going to stay. lol

If anyone is interested, I have the stock radio/cd player from my 2004 XLT ST and a stock radio/cd/tape player from a 2003 Ford Windstar SE. Both of them are in great shape and work perfectly. $20 each or both for $30 (plus shipping)

We took a cruise in the eastern carribean last week and, while docked at St. Thomas, I saw an ST parked there. It was raining at the time and my wife wouldn't let me take a picture with it (wow do I need a life). On the way back to the ship, it was gone. Figures, me in St. Thomas...

On the way home from hockey yesterday I had to snap a picture of this guy in front of me. He had a 12 foot box through the cabin of the car and about three feet sticking out each side. Gotta love watching people bring home stuff from the home improvement stores. :) <img...

Great. I was swapping out the break pads on the front of my ST and, while compressing the pistons, one of them fractured (hello brake fluid). My easy, quick brake job, just became an involved one. Anyone know if you can just replace the piston?

Well, I am coming up on 33K on my '04 ST and I have developed a shaking in the front end. At first I was thinking it was the tires, but I rotated them and the shaking is still there. I started doing experimentation on my daily drive to work and realized that there is a slight pull to the left...

Anyone have experience with repairing cracks in a waverunner hull? We were running the waverunners up in Wisconsin this past weekend when one of the ladies clipped a dock post, cracking the hull on the starboard side, underneath the bow. The crack/tear is about 8 inches long. I am going...

I surprised my wife and kids by bringing home a miniature schnauzer yesterday. We had discussed getting a dog (more like badgered by my daughter), but they were completely taken by surprise. His name is Wolfgang. He is a 2 month old, white AKC miniature schnauzer. Both of his parents...

I can find this out myself, with experimentation, but I was wondering if anyone knew if the SportTrac power points are automatically shut off if something is left plugged in while the truck is shut off. I left a portable DVD player connected in my wife's van and it would shut off the power to...

Does anyone know what the second connection on the stock radio is for? I have the normal stock radio, but the harness only plugs into one of the two ports on the back of it. I stole Nobleman's picture of the back of his radio he has on Ebay for reference and put it in my gallery. The harness...

I finally finished the DVD system in my Trac and put pictures of it in my library. My kids are happy that they can now watch movies in "Hawaiian Punch", which is what they call my Trac. The install isn't that hard - the most difficult thing was getting up the courage to cut into the...

I recently had a major vibration issue which, with suggestions from this forum, I managed to fix. Previously, my ST roared at highway speeds, but that was fixed with a rotation and re-balance of my new tires. Now, I have a bit of a "wobble" feeling in the steering and truck in general, at most...

I managed to visit the Chicago Auto Show last Friday. - The pictures of the "Super Chief" concept really fail to capture how ugly that thing is. It also doesn't portray how huge it is either. - New ST doesn't wow me enough to trade in my current one. I would, however, like to test...

I'm going to take a day off next Friday and go to the Chicago Auto Show. I'm eager to see the new Trac in person, as well as a few others. I hate to admit it, but that FJ is starting to grow on me (but not enough to make me abandon my Trac). Maybe I will talk my wife into trading her minivan...

I recently started having a problem with my track that is more of a annoyance than a problem, but I wanted to get another opinion. I have a 2004 4x4 XLT and I am getting a vibration when I am driving that really intensifies at around 55 mph with OD. With the bed empty, the hard tonneau...

If there is anyone in (or near) the Chicago area that needs a cheap tonneau cover for their ST, I have a soft Ford tonneau cover. It has one broken snap on the passenger side towards the front of the bed (could be replaced), but is otherwise in very good condition - no tears or holes. I really...