Yet our family's backup car, The micro-mobile Ford Festiva with a Mazda
engine under the hood, and assembled by KIA in Korea won't die. Oh Ive tried
to kill it. Off roading... 2 wheel drifts... almost rolled it a few times.
Take a FWD car and some serving trays from McDonalds. place the trays under
the rear tires by reversing the car on them. Place the hand brake on tight.
And drive off. Be careful, control is limited.
Everybody within the last 15 years has learned to drive stick with The
Micro. The only thing wrong, is the clutch slips. It has 150k and won't die.
Kind of surprising for a modern car designed to fall apart at 100,000 miles.
British content: There is such a beast as a Healey Festiva. Now that was
kinda fruity.
Toby
69 Sprite
71 FJ40 Toyota Land Cruiser, 520k miles. (rebuilt by me at 490k for fun)
>Frank,
>Gotta learn not to trust dealers. Your F150's engine is a REAL Ford 4.2 V6.
>Very similar to the 3.8 Ex-Taurus engine. Never any japanese blood in it.
>Also Rod bearings for it are available at Carparts.com. about $43 a set. I
>checked. Probably ought to change the mains while your in there. I haven't
>heard anything about these having bearing probs. You never know, maybe it
>was born on a Fri or Mon.
>Brian
>59 Bugeye under going rest
>97 FORD Expedition
>94 FORD Taurus SHO
>
>97 F150 pick up with a jap V6 (so I'm told) 54,000 miles and it
>knocks.(severely)
>I was just about to replace the original spark plugs too.
>So I asked ford for some plugs and a new rod bearings. No bearings
>available for that engine.
>I never had a lick of trouble with the truck but when something goes
>wrong, it goes big time.
>I never had any troubles at all with my other REAL Fords.
>
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>If you are not living on the edge,
>You're taking up too much space!
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
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