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    Definitive GEN 2 Cooling System Thread

    ÜRO PARTS C2C34318 Coolant Recovery Tank | RockAuto are you saying that this can be considered a viable replacement for the Motorcraft part?
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    Hit and Run - police are trying to identify this make of car

    looks like grille and running light 03-05.
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    thx Nav system

    Des Plaines? I could do that. What do you have and what do you want for it? I really should fix the car first before i worry about the radio, lol
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    98 Mark chrome grill

    I am going to enter my seventies next year and sympathize fully... I usually take pictures of everything I am taking apart and use them as a map to reassembly.
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    98 Mark chrome grill

    you could strip it and paint it body color and wait til a good one does show up at a reasonable price
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    thx Nav system

    are all the thx heads,nav units etc interchangeable between years? In other words, if someoneis selling a good 06 syatem will it be P&P in my 03(thx from factory) thanks Eric
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    dccv pin ID

    the datc test indicates a bad dccv, even though it was just replaced (oem) I still have the original and one from a donor, plus new oem , just want to be sure, lol
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    dccv pin ID

    I am starting to accumulate these and am wondering if there is a way to check them with a meter. There are three pins on the connector, I am guessing one for each solenoid and a common ground, but they don't seem to be marked in any way, and I have no idea what the proper resistance would be...
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    spring hose clamp tool

    thanks, I'll order a set.
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    spring hose clamp tool

    Has anyone found a tool that works more than once or twice on the hose clamps used from the factory? I have bought a couple of different brands (which look identical) and they either don't work at all or only work a couple of times. It looks like the carriage is bending, the idea is a good one.
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    removing chrome on grille

    Pretty much what I have run into- about half of it has peeled off in small sheets, the rest is pretty tight. I thought perhaps it was vac over black lacquer, it seems to peel off in that fashion, and the lac not bonding to the plastic makes more sense than the plating not sticking to the plastic...
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    removing chrome on grille

    I have the typical blistering chrome on my 03, figured i would just paint it ala 06, but need to get rid of the bubbly stuff first. I was kind of surprised at how it peels off in the bad areas, it doesn't seem like either vac or electro plating, almost like an applique of some sort. Anyway, is...
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    paint touch-up

    thanks, my main concern is with adhesion, more than technique. I just don't like the whitish spots on the trunk and hood, very small areas but they annoy me, lol.
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    question re parts car

    no, st chas Il. I decided to pass on it, most of what I need has to be new anyway. There's no point in swapping out bad for bad.
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    paint touch-up

    Since apparently they are in no hurry to get my parts to me, and I can't drive the car the way it is, I am thinking of touching up the acne that is forming around the rear license plate holder and the grille. These are both aluminum parts, do they require a special primer or any other special...
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