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I bought a MKS (great car) and am now selling my Blue 97 with a lot of new parts on it. It needs body work but runs great, I did a lot of work on it with too much to list but if your interested in a project car this is the car. I am in Chicago burbs and if you are interested please contact me at...

I am trying to replace my door jamb switch and got stuck not being able to remove the switch after removing the 3 screws on door. My question does the bottom screw that holds the power lock actuator have to be removed to remove entire unit in order to remove switch, I pulled on switch and broke...

check for fuel/pressure at fuel rails by pressing shrodder valve, if gas sprays out you have no issues with pump then check for oil on spark plugs which could be oil leaking from head saturating your plugs with oil.

Hey anyone know what the ground strap in passenger side wheel well is used for in my 97 Gen II, I came across it while doing my front brakes and it was corroded and not attached to frame so I cleaned it and reattached it. Its located next to ride height sensor and to the right.

Nice!that color along with silver and my cars color (Blue) are my preferred Mark VIII colors. Keep up with all the maintenance items and you will have a gem of a car now and for years to come.

ok the metra harness I used had 8 pins of which 2 had to be relocated to their proper sequence. I moved 7 to 2 and 5 to 4 and everything matches the factory harness. All the colors are matched now and I used blue wire (ant) for amp ground and used the other blue/white wire for the amp turn on. I...

I am changing out my stereo and purchased a metra 70-5600 harness. I am confused as to the wire colors not matching factory pin sequence. On factory radio schematic the pins are labeled as follows: 8=battery 7 ground 6 ignition 5 illumination 4 (not used) 3 ground 2 (not used) 1 radio on. On my...

I had similar situation with my door switches malfunctioning and my interior lights would stay on till they timed out and my radio stayed on. I made sure my radio was off before exiting vehicle cured my battery drain and I now will change both door switches.

If anyones in a pinch for a cheap fix for your rusted out EVAP tray here is cheap fix from Walmart. It is almost the perfect size other than the width being about 5" short and trimming your connection hose between cans by 4" your good to go. The pan costs $5 and some strap steel also try putting...

I change my oil at 3000-4000 mile range and use Wix brand filter and Castrol 5-30 oil. Although I do use the Motorcraft 5-20 in winter months with the Wix filter and do use Mobil 5000 5-30 on occasion as alternate to Castrol. DO NOT use cheap oil filters and try using the Lukas oil additive when...

I get a "data error" message on my messenger display when I try to change my easy entry, puddle lamp, ect ect from on to off in settings menu. I suspect my door switches as the issue because when I enter vehicle from drivers side the interior lights doesn't come on and if I enter from passenger...

Your going to have to use torque wrench with 30mm crows foot to be able to tighten that to the ft lbs mentioned above, the other 2 nuts should ok to use socket w/torque wrench. I am in process of replacing my inner and outer SRB and had difficulties with rusted nuts so I will soak the strut rod...

I think i will try the acetone/transfluid mixture first and see if that works with just hand losing nuts, the electric impact gun will be last option (purchase) seeing I have to use wrench to back off nut that is at frame towards LCA. If need be will try and torch with propane but will be sure...

91 LSC SE, I am going to replace my strut arm bushings and was wondering if you had difficulty removing nuts like I have. I will use the acetone and transfluid mixture on nuts in hopes of losing them but if you have other ideas on this subject please offer your opinions. Also I was going to use...

Hello everyone, I am going to be replacing my strut rod bushing and was wondering if I should as others have mentioned in previous posts to measure a item in order to get the arm to its original position. I know alignment is required in general when front end work is done but I am only replacing...

Can anyone give insight as to why my driver settings do not get saved after I set to keep on or off certain functions. I set the reverse mirrors to off mode but it won't remember that so then I will have to keep setting it back to off. Does it have to do with the door switch possible mallfuctioning?

Ok, finally got both rear lines in using 3/16 line and flared with 3/16 flare kit. No issues of leakage at connections (used original 10mm/12mm nuts) which I suspected may occur due to size in brake lines not being same O.D I will say using the copper/nickle lines made the job easier in bending...

Hey does anyone know what size I should flair my 3/16" copper-nickle break line so that it matches what was existing (5mm) A guy at Toyota dealer had metric bubble flair tool which suggested 4.75 for 3/16 line then it jumps to 6 mm flair. The flair tool at auto zone has 4.75 then a 5mm which I...

Sorry I was looking for description of the failed codes in red not the ok codes in green.

I am trying to interpret some codes that my Torque app is displaying. Does anyone know if there is web site that will give me information on these or can someone respond with description of these codes.