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lmaitland	radiator fluid in engin ;-(	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3 (01/20/2008 05:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Bad news, just had to have my car towed. Looks like there is radiator fluid in the engine. Yuk. It is sitting at the shop to be looked at tomorrow. I really wish I took a mechanics course. Talked to a couple of people and it sounds like a head gasket is gone. I understand that this means rebuilding my engine. Does this sound right? If the car is only worth less than $5000 if it had a good engine. What would it be worth with no engine? I'm looking at my options. There is someone in my neighbour hood is interested in buying her. I might just take him up on on it. Laurie
sdw		#1	[-]
Posts: 473 (01/20/2008 06:25 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Not that big a deal. WHat is the condition of the car? pulling the engine and doing new bearings is not that difficult, right Kevin? I would be interested in what the shop is going to quote you. If you have a garage to work in it won't be that difficult. Sean "Now the proud owner of a daily driver" Weijand Budget Blue '89 XR7
5LCougar		#2	[-]
Posts: 2356 (01/20/2008 07:55 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	1st thing first, Drain the cooling system, 2nd thing, drain the engine oil 3rd thing, replace oil filter 4th thing, add new oil and filter 5th thing run engine for a few minutes with the Rad drain OPEN, heck remove lower rad hose if you want 6th thing drain engine oil... Do that and odds are you will not NEED a engine rebuild... depending on milage and general condition of engine (how it was treated) to do the head Gaskets is a day job by a competent mechanic, and if the rest of the engine is good then it'll be good for awhile more. at 200,000kms/120,000 miles is when bearings REALLY should be of a on the fore front of concern, and the harder the car was driving or the care of the engine (oil changes) the sooner that should be a concern.. and the total bill SHOULD be below $800-1000 (new O2 sensors are a must, and might aswhile do a `tune up' at this point ) if you have someone to do it.. if they look at it in shock and confusion, then you may have issues, but these cars aren't THAT hard to work on.. "Turning seems to be a lost form." "you shouldn't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"
laurie		#3	[-]
Posts: 2 (01/22/2008 04:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Okay, they did more tests. It is the head gasket. They are opening her up to see if the cylinder has been damaged. thanks for giving me a ball park price. That will help a lot. Laurie
Brad94SC		#4	[-]
Posts: 1430 (01/25/2008 02:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	the total cost of my engine rebuild was $2700 for all new internals, plus some extra work on the heads. so far so good, that was three years ago and its still running fine. (except for that pesky boost leak) Brad Fedoruk - 1994 Thunderbird SC 5-Speed President of the SuperCoupe Club of Western Canada
Black Cat 90		#5	[-]
Posts: 1 (01/26/2008 06:42 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I just did mine too. Full sport tune up in there as well- $1540.
homedepot		#6	[-]
Posts: 51 (02/26/2008 02:29 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Man you guys are paying a hell of a lot of money for a rebuild on engines. With my work schedule, i just do mine at home and it takes me, with head porting/polishing/planing of the engine, and a necessary valve job, as well as boring out the cylinders just a tiny bit to get better compression. Good luck. -M OH STOP STARING ! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT ! OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR TO THE S C C o W C ! FLYING HIGH ! -MK
5LCougar		#7	[-]
Posts: 2378 (02/26/2008 06:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahh but not everyone can do the work themselves.. Heck even thou i've been working as a Mechanic/Auto Assembler for over 12 years now.. I still ain't shure about doing a Short block.. I'll bolt the heads on, set up the valve train and the like.. but the bottom end still scares me a little :P Mind you if i built the engine i want, it'll be like $6-8,000 in parts only, Never mind Machine work and assembly... and a simple rebuild, done by a shop for my 5.0L is like $2000 give/take.. (my 289 cost me like $1600 like 12+ years ago, and only has like 700miles on since ) "Turning seems to be a lost form." "you shouldn't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"
twistin		#8	[-]
Posts: 18 (02/26/2008 07:00 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Allways install Ford head gaskets (as per notification) as they are updated to repair the weak stock gaskets.Aftermarket gaskets are not updated and can fail again. Ford tech available for repairs with T-birds Grant 778 228 7399
vtgecgrs		#9	[-]
Posts: 1136 (02/26/2008 07:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The MLS type gaskets are better than the stock type gaskets if you are planning to increase boost. In all my years of owning these cars (since 92) I have never had a headgasket failure. Most of the cars I picked up with the failure were usually poorly maintained examples. Changing radiator fluid is key as it becomes acidic overtime. I would never use the stock style gaskets on the sc unless it is a bone stock rebuild. and do not but a remanufactured engine as they use cheap pistons. I was shown some with cracks when I was visiting DD in Ohio. John
homedepot		#10	[-]
Posts: 54 (02/26/2008 08:36 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	12 years as a mechanic and you still cant put the engine back together?! :O whoa. . . you have all the tools right? not here to make fun of you OH STOP STARING ! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT ! OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR TO THE S C C o W C ! FLYING HIGH ! -MK

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