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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad that this state doesn't have safety inspections! My personal point of view is I'm happy it does not. I guess they could be looked at as a necessary evil. It's hard to describe accurately my personal views on safety. But to sum it up I believe...
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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    Update on fuel tank/fuel pump R&R. It was a PITA, but it got done. Fired right up and read the level correctly because I reset the float before installing it. The factory had it sitting on the floor of the tank, maybe that's the way it's supposed to be (?) but I'd rather have a larger reserve...
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    Expie died

    Still wondering what may have happened to my transmission. I live far away from a town with no car trailer so getting to a shop is not likely in the near future. I saw on a different post that nearly the same thing happened to MWzd's expi...
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    Fluid leak, now no forward.

    I am interested in learning about how this problem turned out. My '04 (5.4) did nearly the same thing, suddenly just started slipping then as I pulled into my driveway it just stopped going forwards but backs up beautifully. I had to go out and get more transportation but the expi is out behind...
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    05 Expedition

    They should have used 0 or 5 - xx, I'm in northern Iowa and 5 -20 worked in my '04 5.4 just fine until the transmission died. As for the bypass valve... can't add anything for that other than it sounds a little coincidental.
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    Bad replacement headlights assembly

    NP. I still have the original housings, might some day try the sanding and clear-coating routine. First however I'm going to try a different brands of bulbs. Back in the days of round and square halogen lights I found that Wagner brand bulbs had a much better beam pattern than the others...
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    Bad replacement headlights assembly

    Good advice but not for this vehicle. The headlights are solid mounted with drop in pins (Peg and tenon style). The only way to accomplish that would be to oblong the pins holes.
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    Bad replacement headlights assembly

    I recently bought some TYC replacements for a non Ford vehicle, CAPA certified, the beam patterns are horrible! If the lights had a horizontal adjustment they would be much better but they don't. What brilliant engineer thought a vehicle only needed vertical headlight adjustments? SMFH!
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    Dial Shifter - Let Me Vent!

    Button shifting has been around a long, long time. The difference is the first ones were still manual and used a button to move the linkage.
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    Expie died

    2004 Expedition XLT 4x4 with advancetrac. Well folks it's been awhile since I've checked in, mostly because the Expy died an unexpected death. It's legs just quit working one day with zero indications that there was a problem. No ambition to move forwards anymore. Goes backwards like it's a...
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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    Better late than never I guess... seriously late really. I gave up on the idea of changing the plugs myself and had a shop do them. Serious sticker shock! Just shy of $500. I hung around the shop and watched and saw the problems he had. It took him nearly five hours. Single piece plugs as...
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    Rear brake/hub issue

    What you describe with your parking brake is why I left all the guts out the last time I put new rotors on. What you can do is harder to accomplish but works very well in most cases. Just add in a line lock. It's not cheap or easy but it uses the caliper as the brake. Assuming you can find a...
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    No rush for this, just wondering out loud

    Thanks everyone for all the advice. But this old gal has too many miles to do anything drastic to it. Both front body mounts are rusted pretty bad, 230,000 on meter, a quart of oil every 1500 miles, ,,,,it's just not worth it. Besides, I'm too old to play like that anymore. Not because i don't...
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    No rush for this, just wondering out loud

    I might try that. Totally agree with the turning across traffic part and losing power...who would think that's a good thing? Engineers sometimes don't really think things 'as through' as they think they do. Yesterday I went around the loop in my drive and before I got to it I switched off...
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    No rush for this, just wondering out loud

    I read that too, it didn't seem to work, but the truck is 16 years old or older. I know I don't work the way I did 16 years ago....
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    Needing an engine diagram of air intake system of 04 5.4L or advice

    Yup, sorry, I got carried away.
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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    :eek::( I just spent about $300 on torque wrenches in the last month...Now I need to get one with a flex head?! AWESOME!!!! :chewie: Those sockets have have a built in ratchet system? You aught be ashamed! Teaching this old dawg about tools he's never even heard of before! :cheers: At...
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    Needing an engine diagram of air intake system of 04 5.4L or advice

    You have to realize that car companies have a multitude of regulations to make the vehicles conform to. One being so-called 'noise' laws. The exhaust noise is one thing, but intake noise is also severely regulated these days. My expe has two "cans" bulbing off the intake tract doing nothing of...
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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    Well, if that is in fact true....DUH! And don't forget DOOH! So maybe I should risk breaking everything inside the engine compartment and get my plugs changed. I love these newfangled vehicles where half the engine top has to be removed just to find the spark plugs and then more stuff has...
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    Odor backing up trailer- Transmission?

    Might want to carefully check brake disk temps after driving a good distance, maybe ten miles without using the brakes a lot. Then try to come to a stop with just very light braking, like coasting up a hill. If you have a brake dragging you'll know it, you'll smell it, but if it doesn't get hot...
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    What to look for when buying a gen 2 expy

    I was wrong about the TB cover having 3V on it. It's only got Triton 5.4L on it. In addition, I may be confused about that nomenclature; 2V, 3V, etc. My feeble understanding is that it refers to the number of valves in a cylinder? I've been not changing my spark plugs because i believe them to...
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    Needing an engine diagram of air intake system of 04 5.4L or advice

    Or, just buy a K&N and wash the oil out....But might not be the same. Since the K&N now has a mark against it's reputation in my book will I run out and buy a paper filter? Probably not. Old habits, even when proven wrong, are hard to quit. For instance, my Doctor tells me I need to stop...
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    Odor backing up trailer- Transmission?

    What he said^^ If by small trailer you mean something with small tires I'd hazard a guess that the bearings got hot. Those small wheels spin really fast going down the highway. And with small, usually ignored bearings, it's even worse. Those little bearings need good fresh grease often, like...
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    No rush for this, just wondering out loud

    Teaching a grumpy old dog like me new tricks isn't easy! o_O
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    Name that noise... Whirring from front end

    I just went through this with my old 04. I can pretty much say it's the IWE. Mine had dried grease and crude packed behind bellows which caused the sliding gear to slightly contact the driven gear of hub. The noise wasn't there until the speed was up around 30 like you say. Why that that is I...

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