What did you do to the expy today

[DF5.4]

It towed my 30' TT 541 miles to Virginia for a family vacation.

 

[metaldrgn]

Well this wasn't today and it wasn't my Expedition, but I helped a lady out last Saturday fix hers. It took about 2 weeks.

A lady was selling her '00 Expedition on craigslist cheap because of a blown out spark plug so I asked if I could come see it to buy it. Then I told her it could probably be repaired and wanted to help her if I could because I know how much that sucks being in a situation like that. The repair shop she took it to told her that the head had to be changed because it had previously been repaired which it was (looks like the previous owner did a shady repair). She said I could come out and look at it so I went over and took some measurements with play-doh and a tube I 3d printed and searched online for a thread repair kit that would work. The only one I could find was the time-sert 5600 kit and ironically enough called the "last chance" repair kit. I called just about every repair shop locally and no one had it. One shop said they did, but I went there to visually verify it and what do you know, they didn't actually have it. So my options were to tell her no one has the kit and I can't help her or just order this $463 kit (only charged her $150 because it was easy to get to and that seemed to be the going rate. That and I'm saving her around $1800) and try to sell it used to at least break even. So I ordered the kit and after I received it I went out last Saturday and did the repair. Everything went well and it started up with no problems. Only took a little over an hour for the repair.

 

[Mikes05expy]

Well this wasn't today and it wasn't my Expedition, but I helped a lady out last Saturday fix hers. It took about 2 weeks.

A lady was selling her '00 Expedition on craigslist cheap because of a blown out spark plug so I asked if I could come see it to buy it. Then I told her it could probably be repaired and wanted to help her if I could because I know how much that sucks being in a situation like that. The repair shop she took it to told her that the head had to be changed because it had previously been repaired which it was (looks like the previous owner did a shady repair). She said I could come out and look at it so I went over and took some measurements with play-doh and a tube I 3d printed and searched online for a thread repair kit that would work. The only one I could find was the time-sert 5600 kit and ironically enough called the "last chance" repair kit. I called just about every repair shop locally and no one had it. One shop said they did, but I went there to visually verify it and what do you know, they didn't actually have it. So my options were to tell her no one has the kit and I can't help her or just order this $463 kit (only charged her $150 because it was easy to get to and that seemed to be the going rate. That and I'm saving her around $1800) and try to sell it used to at least break even. So I ordered the kit and after I received it I went out last Saturday and did the repair. Everything went well and it started up with no problems. Only took a little over an hour for the repair.

That's awesome man, not a whole lot of ppl out there anymore that'd go out of their way to help out a stranger like that.

 

[metaldrgn]

Yea I'm glad it worked out. I wasn't sure if there was even anything out there that would work and I've never done a thread repair before.

 

[northernexp]

Yea I'm glad it worked out. I wasn't sure if there was even anything out there that would work and I've never done a thread repair before.

Have you ever tried aheli coil kit?

I broke the bolt that holds the coolant crossover pipe to the motor on the passenger side, and the threads are threaded into the bock unfortunately, I drilled out the broken bolt and used the heli coil kit and threaded in the exact same size for the bolt and got a new bolt from Ford and it worked like a charm

 

[metaldrgn]

Have you ever tried aheli coil kit?

I broke the bolt that holds the coolant crossover pipe to the motor on the passenger side, and the threads are threaded into the bock unfortunately, I drilled out the broken bolt and used the heli coil kit and threaded in the exact same size for the bolt and got a new bolt from Ford and it worked like a charm

I didn't see anything they made that would work with a hole that size but I didn't really look into them too much. Time-sert was the first and only one I found that would work.

 

[northernexp]

Oh and I wanted to say that that was very nice of you helping out a stranger like that, it doesn't happen enough unfortunately

 

[metaldrgn]

Thanks

 

[northernexp]

Gave the ol girl a wash and quick polish with meguiars

 

[metaldrgn]

i'm thinking of driving mine tonight, i've been driving the excursion and explorer. time to give the expy some love!

Ditto but I took her to work yesterday and I'll probably finish off the week with her. I really want to upgrade to an EB though for the nicer sound system, leather seating and not having a center console is driving me nuts.