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    Just stopping by for a visit.

    Computer troubles, and life in general has kept me away for a while. The 91 is getting parted finally. After 206,000 enjoyable miles, I gotta open her up and see what's left. Original clutch...gotta see it......2.3dp with 30,000 miles since .060 mill job, gotta see the pistons...still starts...
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    1991 getting buried sat.

    My 91 has succomb to rotten body and everything worn out syndrom. Saturday it begins the parting out phase of its life. If anyone in the wisconsin area needs anything let me know. my 88tc is up for grabs, and will be parted in the next 2 weeks if no one wants it whole. The 91 will have over...
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    Just Visiting

    Greetings and salutations. I finally got a few minutes to check in. Life's been hectic. Wife's scort wgn turned out to be the last bozo who did a timinng belt didn't get the crank pulley bolt tight enough and the end of the crank bought the farm,A jy motor n plenty of cussin later, that's done...
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    stumped on the wife's escort

    :shrug: 95 escort/auto+air. compression-170,150,155,170.--computer shows no codes--spark plugs looked identicle and good(a little dry)--motor has 140,000 on it--cured all vacuum leaks--new plug wires and plugs--gutted the cat(merely precautionary)--symptom, it gradually lost power over the last...
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    Project: Phoenix.

    :flag: My 89 will be resurected from the 91's parts+various other tc stuff that followed me home. Assuming you had the parts laying around the shop, :D Your budget was your parts on hand and $500, How would you allocate your recources?
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    Octane/compression

    Currently I'm running a 91 dp with a .060 shave . The computer argues with inferior brands of 89 octane. Car pulls hardest when it's @55degrees with relatively high pressure in the area. Car closer to being parted everyday as the suspension mounts are rotting out. I got parts laying around...
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    OOOPs,stripped a tc block

    @ 1 year ago I acquired a tc block from a gent in green bay wisc. I was concerned about its condition because I knew he bought it to beat it as a winter beater. He sold the motor to me because he just wanted the back axle,ect. The motor had approx 130,000 miles on it and I thought I would be...
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    Project updates

    Been A W O L , forgive me, :rolleyes: My son has adopted another project for his buddies, an 84(or thereabouts)ranger 4 wd with what I have been told is a 1600cc carbed motor. My question ( to the guys in the know) 1-Is this a similar block to the 2.3, 2- will a 2.3 bolt up to the bellhousing...
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    88 tc up for grabs!

    :( The house crapped it's furnace today, the tc is up for grabs. $650 - If interested email me for details. [email protected] At this point I classify it as a parts car, but it could be saved yet. Later, Dan
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    Remember When?

    Today at work, we started talking about the cars we wish we had never sold. In general the talk was all positive. Then I started to think back on how it really was.--u-joints that went out every 15,000 miles / alternators going south every 30,000 miles / radios that were a pain to tune once the...
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    Got Boosted For New Year's

    :nice:wierdest sight I ever seen, Santa trying to cram a 88 tc down the chimmney! I encouraged santa to come down off the roof and leave it in the yard. Not sure if it will get parted or driven for a while, gas tank leaks and the undercarriage has a fair amount of rust. I just picked it up...
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