New battery, new'ish terminals. Hooking the jumper cables directly to the wires (bypassing the terminals) had no effect. Also did a cursory tug and shake on the battery wire bundle, no effect.
I've got a mindfreak going on with my 97 LSC.
It spends a lot of time sitting, sometimes weeks at a time. The past couple of drives have gone like this:
-Start car. Take a 5min "dust off" drive around the neighborhood. Park it.
-Start car 10-15min later, take it on the joyride I intended...
1997, LSC. Cluster looks identical to the clusters I've had in my 95 and 96 Thunderbirds.
I can try popping it out and futzing with it. Hopefully I'll find a part number sticker while I'm in there.
Symptoms; Needle doesn't move. In the weeks before, it would occasionaaly drop dead for a second or less, them pop back to life.
Cruise control works, all the other gauges work, everything hanging out the side of the transmission looks good.
So... Is this something just inside the speedometer...
Aye I've done that on old racecars in a past life. I was hoping I could be old and lazy just this once. lol
There are 2 portions of rubber flex hose in this line, I wonder how much flex those actually get...
1997 LSC, needs a brake line. This one comes out of the ABS Control module and goes to the drivers front wheel.
Anybody know how i can find one of these?
Thanks
Eric
Cincinnati Oh.
I've had it for a few years, haven't had time to work on it or chase land-speed racing like I wanted to. Fortunately its a reliable, clean, comfortable driver, so I've been able to enjoy it that way.
-TSW 18" rims, 13" Cobra brake and hub conversion, EMRC delete and tune...
So, I did the upgrade a looooong time ago, had a kid, things sat and sat and sat.
Now I'm balding, and I want to find replacement OEM ford Cobra calipers like I had on my HPDE Cougar project (Red,"cobra" on them), but I can't find them with any consistency. Seems a simple request; Ford parts...
Yep, still for sale. I already moved, so he's been enjoying a garage space for a while now.
Just discovered a private message from August inquiring about the same car, I thought I'd get an email notification about those!
Cincinnati Oh.
I've had it for a couple of years, haven't had time to work on it or chase land-speed racing like I wanted to. Fortunately its a reliable, clean, comfortable driver, so I've been able to enjoy it that way.
-I put a lot of work into cleaning every bit of the interior, going...
Done, in many ways. I tried it as you mentioned (though I don't have the ass to do 6"), and also while on stands, using a jack to compress and decompress the suspension with me under the car. Can't produce the noise. I tried approaching my driveway at various angles, which will compress one...
That was my hope when this cropped up, but I've given those a solid shaking and beating while under the car and haven't gotten any noise or movement out of them. I suppose it could be fairly harmless to disconnect them and take a quick drive, to see if the noise dissapears.
Couldn't tell you, I had a shop do it. Huge suspension bolts are not somthing I'm equipped to handle in my rented driveway. :)
I may take it to a dealership for diagnosis, just to see if they find anything wrong with the work that I'd had done in the spring at the local shop. If that's solid...
1997 LSC, 103k mi. Just had ball joints done 8 months ago, and shortly after this noise came up. It's gotten slowly worse, though I've only driven it 2000mi this year.
-It sounds like metal on metal, with a grinding kind of sound, like a threaded bolt sliding in and out of a hole. Almost like...
Investigating these things on my car, this is a helpfull thread.
Now, the $60 per hour question is: How bad of a job is this? I've got a driveway to work in and at least two large wrenches to buy. Should I just fund my local suspension shop?
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