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retmil46 · #13 01-06-2013, 08:31 PM

I'm going to let the shop deal with the balancer and front seal - once I've got it back together enough to drive over there.

Right now, I'm having loads of fun troubleshooting, cutting out, and replacing all that cheap a$$ brittle heat baked and cracked plastic tubing, that Ford laughingly called a vacuum system. The tubing in both 87 MB's put together didn't give me anywhere near as much trouble as this Walmart-quality crap that Ford put in this single vehicle.

The only good portions of the original tubing left that will hold vacuum are where it disappears into the passenger side fender well and goes to the vacuum reservoir. Thank gawd for at least that - I was having nightmares of having to try and remove the wheel well liner to get at it.

But all of it inside the engine bay - heat baked and as brittle as dry spaghetti.

Not to mention that the 3 solenoids for the EGR and two air pump valves were toast as well.

And don't get me started on that POS EGR valve and it's associated position sensor.

Or 75 amp alternator with a SINGLE 14 GAUGE WIRE for an output cable - on a car with power windows, power door locks, power convertible roof, and A/C.