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How cold is cold? How long is the warm up you use? No Shake when it warms up in the 4 to 5K range? If it was a miss it would light the light and set a Code. A waiting more Info

Hey Escobar what is up with your TC

Yes It looks good. This time of year it looks good for about 5 minutes or 200 yards on the dirt road!!!

Very Nice! Hope it helps You need to tow a trailer with Your TC. That will ad a Memory that the thing that you are banging your leg on is in fact very useful Cheers

You must live in California! If you ever get the TC to vermont I will take care of it for you If you do get it cut off make sure you save the part. I am sure that somewhere in Ca there is a welding shop that can do the Job for you that will be more than strong enough to handel a 2000 lb trailer with a 200lb vertical load. I like the scrap pile there is alot of great stock for endlass prolects. Keep us posted on your search

That sounds Like a good Call. Make sure you Fuse both ends of the battery supply. with a battery at both ends of the wire it is needed for safety

The Spare is the same and My TC has Alloys So I am going to Put the Spare on one of the Alloys and get 1 New Tire for Next Spring and Put them on the front. 21500 on the clock so I will get Next summer out of the tires . The Snow tires will go on in a week or so. Just waiting woud rather Burn up the summer tires as long as I can.

Sounds like your plan is coming together. When I lowered the tire to check my hitch clearance I saw the second cable . There is a long history of the lift cable on the under hung tires rusting and the tire dropping into the road . This leaves a nasty surprise for an up coming driver . It also is a bad surprise for the car owner when they have a flat and have no Spare. It is a good change. I drop the Spare at least once a year to lube up the lift winch and cable. Harbor freight has a very nice light small Aluminum floor jack that I keep on-board . it makes getting the car up much easier and when put under the hitch frame the spare comes right out. Can't wait for the pictures

Great Post!!

Yes you could do that . You could use cap to find out the diameter of the tube and the hose to connect it to the vent. As for the fluid Level mine is just a weep at this Point and is getting checked at the oil change . Remember the fluid should just drip out the hole when the trans is at operating Temp.

The wagon rear panels take up a little more interior space where you see the metal wheel tub on the van giving 48inches between the wheels. The Wagon covers wheel tub and reduces the clearance to just shi of 47 inches. The panel also houses a cooling duct for the rear AC that cools the third Seat. Of course there are the required Cup Holders for the rear seat passenger's Latte!!

I think they should be able to do it take some pictures when it is done!

If your hitch shop has the right person the receiver tube could be cut off and put back up flush with the bumper with new gussets! It would take somewhere between one and two hours.

The oem hitch hangs from the upper support and the shape of the gussets won't allow the receiver tube to be moved further under the car. The Curt hitch has the receiver tube between the support tube halfs making it easier to adjust the stick out The hitch you checked out was the correct one and fits perfectly.

If the Pictures posted are not good enough I will get more this weekend when I get back home this week end.

If you go back in this post there are pictures of the Curt hitch on my Tc check them out

Should you decide to remove the hitch part the Curt after market hitch will mount to you Tc In less than 1 hour and as my pictures show, does not stick out from the bumper The Spare drops nicely with the hitch in place. The only test I have yet to do is to see if the Tc would clear the spare with a flat tire in the rear. The Curt hitch is 151 and change from Etrailer. This option would Protect your legs, keep your recovery tow options open and allow you to tow a trailer if that ever became necessary. Win,Win,Win

The Price at fordparts.com was 285.00, More than the hitch! At that cost you could cut the Receiver off and get an aftermarket Curt hitch when you need a tow option. Installing my hitch took less than 1 hour. Keep the updates coming.

If you look at the parts picture of the Hitch assembly there are parts that stick quite far forward . It they are not inside the tubes it would be easy . If they are inside the frame boxes then getting it out would be much harder. The other question is how much is the bumper support? Depending on the price there is another option. Do you know any Good Welders?

Here are the photos of the Step that I use to access the back of the van I put rubber treads on both the step and the bumper cover

If the problem Is wide spread then they will be able to duplicate it, If not yours will have to be the test case. The piece that is circled in red is a different part for the Van and I think it stops the air going to the rear on the Vans If they used the one for the wagon or the piece is not installed right then the air goes into the Console

Nice Pictures windguy, The Oem Hitch is about 1/2 of an inch Higher than the Curt hitch .The tire lowers buy My hitch very nicely. I am going to lower the tire to the ground and see if the Tc will have to be Jacked up to get the tire out from under in the case of a flat. Good to Know before it becomes a situation. The pictures confirm that your hitch replaces the bumper support so the removal would require part 40338. That would make it not as easy as I hoped. I have made a Rear step that rides in the receiver that I use when I Stand on the bumper to get things out of the back I will post a Picture tomorrow when I have light It might be a solution for you.

I think you are on the right track. I would like to see what that connector piece looks like for the van it has to be a air flow block if that part is not right or missing then the air will be dumped into that area. I hope you get a tech who takes their time they will find it.

You could be right, I checked the ford parts and the hitch is listed as a separate part from the bumper which gives me hope Waiting for pictures