What did you do to the expy today

Brake light switch . I'm a lucky guy .

Today I changed the brake light switch in my 06' Expy . I didn't notice it was broken until yesterday , it was really easy and only cost me $40 dlls. because I changed it myself I took me about 10 minutes .

The "lucky guy" part comes from the realization that it most have been broken since august or even before and I have made a couple of really long trips since then almost 3 thousand miles long with heavy storms and night driving and we didn't have any incidents. Tonight everything works fine; as it should .
I feel safe in my expy again .

Here is a video on how to fix it , they shot it on a F-150 but it's the same procedure .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNk947lqYI

CesarAguilar85 said:

Today I changed the brake light switch in my 06' Expy . I didn't notice it was broken until yesterday , it was really easy and only cost me $40 dlls. because I changed it myself I took me about 10 minutes .

The "lucky guy" part comes from the realization that it most have been broken since august or even before and I have made a couple of really long trips since then almost 3 thousand miles long with heavy storms and night driving and we didn't have any incidents. Tonight everything works fine; as it should .
I feel safe in my expy again .

Here is a video on how to fix it , they shot it on a F-150 but it's the same procedure .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNk947lqYI

Click to expand...

That's awesome I'm glad nothing bad happened to you, I just completed a 5000 km trip and on day 2 I noticed my park lights would work but I wouldn't get anything when I applied the brakes.

I took a look under where the brake light switch is and some how the wire that feeds into the harness was pulled out of the back of the harness and hanging loose.

I found that so bizarre soccer you really have to apply force to pull a wire out from the back of a harness.

I fixed the problem immediately but I still couldn't help thinking I did 1500 kms in bad weather, fog, rain, snow with people always behind me and I they would have no way of knowing I was pressing the brakes.



Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

Today was a good day, I took out the gauge cluster to finally repair the one solder point for the odometer, while it was out I also polished the clear plastic to mint condition. I also installed a rear power point to the back of the cab above the rear HVAC. turned out great.

Had her towed to work to get this beast going and start driving it. I can't wait to be driving a expedition again.

Little late but, had a new steering rack out and rear wheel hubs (drives like a new one now) and also had all 8 plugs done. Running like a top now


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gruz7 said:

Little late but, had a new steering rack out and rear wheel hubs (drives like a new one now) and also had all 8 plugs done. Running like a top now


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Click to expand...

Was your steering kind of tight before you changed it?

Trumposarus said:

Was your steering kind of tight before you changed it?

Click to expand...

Yes but only somewhat, nothing that seemed abnormal for a 9 year old truck. So when i took it in for service and checking of the entire drivetrain/suspension, they noticed a hole in the rack itself that i happened to miss in my purchasing inspection of the truck. I was surprised it didn't cause more issues than it did based on the size of the whole and the amount of fluid leaking out of it lol... but i know the dealership's owner and so we used aftermarket parts and not OEM and had the rack put in for pretty cheap and now the thing turns like an escalade!

Haha nice

It wasn't today but a few days ago I replaced my cracked pcv boot. Napa gave me the wrong part and the old one was already cut off. I replaced it with a 90 degree bent rubber hose. Seems good so far. Is there any negatives tp using the hose instead?

I ordered a engine 5.4 for the 03 has 75k on it for 650 bucks.