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It towed my 30' TT 541 miles to Virginia for a family vacation.
What did you do to the expy today
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Gave the ol girl a wash and quick polish with meguiars
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.
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Not all xlt come with the cheap stuff. Mine came with leather and center cansol
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My xlt came with a center console also, not having one would suck. On another note I came across this today I thought id share some pics, not a Ford but the work that was done was very impressive, 6 door GMC truck?!?!
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My xlt came with a center console also, not having one would suck. On another note I came across this today I thought id share some pics, not a Ford but the work that was done was very impressive, 6 door GMC truck?!?!
That's nice work who ever did it. Would be nicer if it was a ford lol
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Yeah the guy did a real nice job everything looks OEM I was really impressed, a6door f150 with a long box would be awesome
I know some xlts have those options but I know I would be getting it all with an EB and I like the look a little more.
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That's really nice!Like this
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Brake bleed for 4 new calipers
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you can get an XLT with leather...the factory sound system is garbage...the leather seats arent leather at all...theyre vynil...and you can buy the console and install it...
for better sound...just replace your speakers with aftermarket speakers...nothing expensive...i originally put kicker in my doors for $70 a set front/back...drastically improved the sound...but u can always take it up a notch by adding a small amp to them to increase the sound even more...again...nothing exspensive...i buy my audio on ebay and get good product...
everything in a EB...can be had in the XLT...seen it
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