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I got roped into cleaning the house instead of working on my car, but I found enough time to fix a few more paint chips and wetsand/polish my headlight lenses to reduce that cheap old plastic haze. They're leaky and slightly hazed on the inside, but they look about 80% better than before and that's pretty good for a couple dollars and about 10 minutes work. Started to peel the fugly blue and teal tape pinstripe off, left a horrific line of brown glue that rubbing alcohol only smeared. I'll have to pick up some goo gone and a plastic scraper.
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I gave it a much needed bath ( trees!) and scrubbed the years of accumulated rust and brake dust from the hubcaps. Unfortunately it's got spots of tar all over it from all the repaving they're doing around here so I need to find time to clay it.
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Jun 15, 2009 12:29
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Pudgygiant posted:K&N intake on my '03 EB Explorer. It needed more growl and even romping it at every stoplight the computer-reported MPG is steadily climbing. I don't understand why K&N used 95mm hose clamps on a 95mm silicon tube however. Why not just use 105mm and save everybody the trouble of having to shoehorn every hose clamp on? Just make sure to clean it religiously. If you don't maintain the oiled filter it'll allow a lot of particulates to get into your engine.
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Jun 19, 2009 15:36
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RaptorFag posted:Pretty close to the face my Escort made when I rear ended a Jeep. In the last two weeks I hit a Jeep right in the hitch receiver, had the Jeep pulled properly on the frame puller, had my car pulled back into shape with some rope looped around a tree, slapped some new headlights in it and called it good. The radiator looks jacked up but passes a pressure test and hasn't leaked since it was towed, likewise for the a/c compressor. So all in all I spent $160 to fix two vehicles, one of them to 99% of pre-accident condition. I am a lucky fucker.
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Jul 10, 2009 03:38
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While keeping an eye on some kids on bikes loving around in the street I turned too early and drove over the corner of the curb, blowing out my r/f tire.  A couple of the kids gave me a hand putting the spare on.  I showed them how to use the scissor jack that comes with the car and the right way to re-tighten the lug nuts.
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Aug 19, 2009 04:12
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PBCrunch posted:When you said lowered I was expecting to scroll down to some hellaflush trash but that looks very nice. I love the way the front looks on the ZX2, it's too bad they're not much more powerful than the regular third gen Escort. I put new wipers and a clean air filter on my regular Escort today, and picked up the Haynes manual to help me do the plugs and wires fairly soon.
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Sep 13, 2009 00:29
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Sockington posted:What about the 2003s? Not so much, the combo of the oval headlights and the accenting fog lights is the key I think.
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Sep 13, 2009 05:05
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A motor mount broke when I was driving, causing the engine to drop and break the flex pipe to the exhaust and make a lot of big scary noises. Now it's in the shop waiting for parts. 
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Oct 31, 2009 20:42
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Found out my rear springs are broken. 
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Nov 4, 2009 16:13
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ohstone posted:Trust me.... no matter what you do... it will have a very noticeable vibration at idle. It's just a rough idling motor. My ZX2 idles so rough that the steering wheel becomes a blur at times. But still it has 160 thousand miles and still runs like a champ. Escorts buzz, the ZX2s doubly so. If the motor mount is really bad you should fix it before it breaks something really expensive. I let a bad motor mount go and the engine shifted and busted the flex pipe. Wound up needing engine mounts, flex pipe, a tranny mount, and some weirdo bolts we had to special order because we didn't have anything else that would fit.
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Dec 2, 2009 02:48
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Disassembled my center console (parking brake bezel, shifter bezel and cup holders) and cleaned a decades worth of spilled coffee, food crumbs, and gross tarry smoker residue out of it. Also replaced the burnt out bulb in the gear shift indicator and am polishing the paint stuff off the back of the shift indicator plate thing so I can switch all my interior poo poo to amber instead of green. Simple Green is the poo poo and after gouging the crusty corroded change out of the cup holders with a screwdriver, the tarry black horror left in them was vile.  Now they are clean and pleasantly pine scented.
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Dec 5, 2009 18:20
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Put my center console back together, attempted to clean upholstery but upholstery cleaner was lovely and after half an hour of rubbing with absorbent white cloths I was still bringing brown crud out of the seat I started on.  gently caress smokers. Gonna give it a shot with the steam cleaner next weekend I think.
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Dec 7, 2009 03:12
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GWBBQ posted:I forget what brand of carpet cleaner I have, but they sell it at BJ's, it's in a blue and white aerosol can, and judging by smell it's somewhere around 125% ammonia. Made a car that gave me such a bad asthma attack I almost added a panic attack to the mix into my beater/daily driver for months. Removed what I estimate to be 5 to 6 pounds of coffee stains and turned brown upholstery into cream colored again. That stuff and a stiff-bristled brush can take out anything. It's almost time for a trip to the Beej anyway, I'll look for it. I'm taking the bissell carpet steamer out of retirement to give everything a good thorough cleaning with the upholstery attachment.
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Dec 7, 2009 06:04
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Skyssx posted:Instrument panel bulbs are a huge pain in the rear end. Part of this ZX2 is that the wiring supplying the license plate lights fuzed and fried every bulb in the car before blowing the fuse. All the easy ones got replaced, so the panel lights are left to me. Yeah those are a bitch. You have to drop the steering wheel and take the whole assembly out anyway so just take it inside with you and replace all the bulbs. This place makes inexpensive drop in LED replacements for standard wedge base bulbs if you're into that.
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Feb 21, 2010 18:19
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