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The front suspension is quite fordish. Luckily the suspension parts are cheap. But the tie rods only have outer ends. If the inner ones go it's the steering rack.

The wrap shop removed mine and offered to order me a new set as they saw that the plugs will not be watertight when reinstalled. I said screw this, I'll fit them myself. Took me 10 minutes to fix the plugs with some silicone. Been fine since.

Intercooler pipes enlarge under boost, that's normal. That's why they have the metal rings on them.

You'll get an instand reply in transit connct'ed facebook group. Lots of diesel guys there.

I don't have the roof rack either, just the plugs for the bolt holes.

My rain groove rack plugs leaked after removing them once for vinyl wrapping. Put some silicone under the plugs.

That’s pretty good. The fact that the all glass roof piece survived the head-on collision without cracking speaks of excellent passenger compartment rigidity.

Note that the bearings are different for ABS-equipped variants. Pretty sure the bearing is available locally as it should be the same as in Focus. Not 100% sure.

How does it go away with disengaged clutch then? The wheel bearings are a weak point in these vans tho.

Most normal contractors drive Rangers and Hiluxes, some Nissans and Isuzus, but these are minority. I never have and never will understand the bling watch fetish. I get it if your business involves hanging out with wrinkly old white dudes on a golf course but other than that - a G-Shock or even the F-91W should do just fine on a normal work day.

Word. The Bug was never intended to save anyone from a bigger than average bird in a collision but I still get the true radical conservatives praising superiority of old American Iron. Right:

There's a warehouse construction next to my "home" gas station 5 minutes from my house. All the guys there are hauling their gear around in the latest model Denalis, Laramies and Raptors. If I was the client I would think that I might be overpaying for the job. Note that these trucks cost A LOT more over here, Denali and RAM Laramie are €70K, Raptor is €86K.

I have the same floor jack. It's great but has only one issue: it doesn't fit in the case with the handle installed. Have to remove it every time after use.

Once you have removed the nut just soak the connection in WD-40 for a few hours and pull the wiper off the peg. It's a cone with miniature splines. Do not yank or you'll damage the underlaying mechanism or break the wiper. The best solution is using a small puller. Now that I think of it I recall having used these as a single-sided pullers:

You must have thought we had ran out of stupidity in the world by now?

I doubt there even were any. I'm pretty sure the models manufactured for the US to be stripped of seats for cargo conversion were airbag free.

The Tornado is a joke like a fuel magnet or playing classical music to your drinking water. Do not buy one, ever.

The original van does not have the filler floor piece. The cargo floor is in one piece. It’s a converted wagon if there’s a filler piece.

I love the converted trailers but all look tongue heavy.

Thanks Don. I dont particularly WANT to do it but I might.

I mean the boot between the door and the body.

The funnel was included with mine. Did you check the “secret” compartment in the back?

This exact thing happened to my connector as well. I did buy a new resistor pack just to discover a molten connector. The resistors were good. I refurbished the connector with some spare contacts and it remained working till I sold it.

Do you remember if the wire boots were easily accessible to run heavier cables through? I have a pair of new 2-way speakers left over from my Corolla project but they require a lot of power to run (won’t budge below 40W RMS) so factory wiring is out of the question. Experienced this with Corolla’s stock wiring and a 2x55W amp. Just a squeak, no actual music power at all.

Disallowing American companies importing their own products from overseas factories tax free is really counter productive. There is no point of tooling every factory for producing every single model. It’s obviously logical to produce the Connect in Europe where the main market of that body type is. Just like there’s no point of producing Mustang in Europe where it’s a rarity in parking lots and streets.