Requiem for a Ford

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bitshird

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After nearly 250,000 miles my poor Ford Windstar laid it last puff of smoke yesterday, stupid timing belt broke and kind of made a mess of things, So after looking at a bunch of junkers, I wound up with a nice running OLD Nissan Pickup which in reality I needed more than a van any way, it was soooo hard loading cut logs into a Ford mini van.
Nice thing is this is an 89 4 cyl, with a 5 spd. runs good, I think it's running a bit rich, and may be loosing a little oil through the valve guides. But I can work on it, it's a basic engine and I know what all the parts are, the van or my wife's Saturn Vue I couldn't tell what much of anything was it all looked like stuff on a space ship.
It lent more credence to the homily of Found On Road Dead. But I will miss some of the creature comforts, like Air, Cruise and electric seats.
 
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It's sometimes like losing an old friend when these old trucks go out of our lives. Over the past 40 years, I've had a couple that I had some of the best time of my life in, travelling around western north America. Hope the Nissan provides some good memories, too.
 
bitshird said:
After nearly 250,000 miles my poor Ford Windstar laid it last puff of smoke yesterday, stupid timing belt broke and kind of made a mess of things, So after looking at a bunch of junkers, I wound up with a nice running OLD Nissan Pickup which in reality I needed more than a van any way, it was soooo hard loading cut logs into a Ford mini van.
Nice thing is this is an 89 4 cyl, with a 5 spd. runs good, I think it's running a bit rich, and may be loosing a little oil through the valve guides. But I can work on it, it's a basic engine and I know what all the parts are, the van or my wife's Saturn Vue I couldn't tell what much of anything was it all looked like stuff on a space ship.
It lent more credence to the homily of Found On Road Dead. But I will miss some of the creature comforts, like Air, Cruise and electric seats.
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May not be the old Ford's fault. Ford recommends changing the timing belt at 80,000, 160,000, 240,000, 320,000 and 400,000. So far, This schedule has worked just fine for me. Should I plan on changing the belt at 480,000 or am I good to go? That is as far as my manual recommends.
 
Well Ken, if you drove an Aerostar into the ground, as much as I like you I'm not sure you deserve a Nissan. I drove 3 Nissans over 1,000,000 million miles. Only thing I ever did, other than change the timing belt, was change the oip and filter.... Well... on the the 300ZX, I did change the clutch slave... but it was a pussy from the get go.

I just sold a Ford with 175,000 miles WITH a warranty! BUT, I did change the belt at recommendation AND it it only ever drank Mobile 1!

You must NOT treat your wheeled friends "as family".
 
I am certainly impressed that you pulled that many miles in a windstar van. Nothing against ford at all, but my dad was always into those windstar vans..still drives one today. I swear I've seen smart cars make it up the hill faster than one of those. They are ugly and have no muscle.
 
PenMan1 said:
Well Ken, if you drove an Aerostar into the ground, as much as I like you I'm not sure you deserve a Nissan. I drove 3 Nissans over 1,000,000 million miles. Only thing I ever did, other than change the timing belt, was change the oip and filter.... Well... on the the 300ZX, I did change the clutch slave... but it was a pussy from the get go.

I just sold a Ford with 175,000 miles WITH a warranty! BUT, I did change the belt at recommendation AND it it only ever drank Mobile 1!

You must NOT treat your wheeled friends "as family".
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I can't count that high. Someone not from Kentucky tell me how many miles 1,000,000 million miles is. I already ran out of all my appendenges.:laugh:
 
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