Brought the Cobra home from storage finally, gangs all here!!!
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What did you do for your Terminator today?
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Cam locked up and broke the chain. The front two cam journal's are damaged from poor lubrications. (Head is junk now) I tried playing Dick Tracy, and pulled the oil galley plugs from the heads and looked for any think that may of gotten in and clogged up those oil passage to the cam journals but found nothing. Also nothing in the oil pump screen. Funny though the Main and rod bearings look great.
I looked at buying two other sets of used heads just to find the same failure. (Bad cam journals) Humm!! Is this a common problem?
Finally found a good set of heads and sent them out for a valve job and clean up the surface.
However I WILL be installing a new oil pump!!!
MB
I looked at buying two other sets of used heads just to find the same failure. (Bad cam journals) Humm!! Is this a common problem?
Finally found a good set of heads and sent them out for a valve job and clean up the surface.
However I WILL be installing a new oil pump!!!
MB
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I miss doing that. TBH I'd rather spend a weekend doing that than detailing my car.
Did you rule out your oil cooler@ your oil filter?
Mine started to leak- thinking of trying to repair it but ready to buy a new one ....
LOL. That's hilarious....you got to keep a sense of humor thru this crap.
Replaced the rack and outer tie rods this past weekend. Initially went in for an inner tie rod, found the issue was the rack. Ended up w the cardone 22000, seems just like it was. I know there's some questions as to if they're truly specd for the Terminator.
Went w mevotech outers and did the mm aluminum bushings. Thought about doing the steering shaft but for the price it didn't seem worth it. New front tires go on tomorrow at the alignment shop.
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Went w mevotech outers and did the mm aluminum bushings. Thought about doing the steering shaft but for the price it didn't seem worth it. New front tires go on tomorrow at the alignment shop.
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Looked at it...
It’s actually dirty from driving it yesterday but I didn’t get a pic
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It’s actually dirty from driving it yesterday but I didn’t get a pic
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Is that cardone the only option? I'm guessing oem terminator rack discontinued? Let us know how it drives. The mm bushings are a good upgrade
I’ve had that exact cardone rack for close to 3 years and over 20k miles and it did FEEL the same as the OEM rack however the codes the racks were based off do matter. My lock to lock ratio was much quicker after and the rack code was a NJ not a ZM. I can’t find info on the car the NJ came from but the car lost a .5 turns lock to lock. I also run the solid MM rack bushings as the car came with them.
There are other options but they were pretty pricey, I wanna say close to $500.
As far as the codes, I saw in another thread that someone contacted cadone about the codes not matching and they said that they use the outer housings from any mustang but rebuild the inners to spec - so the code doesn't matter according to them. But like you, others have reported that they aren't to spec, others have. Mixed results I guess. At least the 275s don't rub and it's not a noticeable difference from what I can tell so far.
How many turns from center to lock on yours?
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Yeah I feel pretty dang lucky to have found it. I'd take a parchment interior over the light gray any day of the week.
Mine is 1 and 1/4ish from center to all the way one side or the other.
Nice trio, Jay. Gotta love Sonic Blue Terminators. Looks really nice with your blue Raptor!
I don't know Bob. There's some weird looking silver thing in between the 2 Ford products. Now, if it were 3 Ford products I would understand the picture better
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