Tuckers Baby
- Reaction score
- 30
- Thunderbird Year
- 1957
This Friday marked one year since I purchased Christine in 2020, 8,200 miles ago. In my last post I mentioned the new coilovers and how I’m living the lowered life now. I’ve gotten used to it and haven’t had any further scraping issues since; even parallel parked her on campus a few days when I took the car to class.
The other issue I mentioned was my coil packs which were indeed bad and got replaced alongside my spark plugs only to find oil where it shouldn’t be, especially flooding cylinder #7. So that got sopped up and I called my mechanic to schedule an appointment for new valve cover gaskets. While there, my repair bill doubled when he found my intake manifold gaskets I previously thought fixed at the Ford dealership, had about 1” missing of one and a cut in another. Rather than trying to deal with people 100 miles away I just ate the cost then and there. Now there’s no more missfire in cylinder #8 and my engine sounds healthy as ever. He even found the last source of my lean codes being the Cold Air Intake and all I have to do there is bolster the seals with some tube silicone.
Also took the T-Bird to Cars & Coffee this morning, getting plenty of attention as I’m the only one in a sea of Mustangs and JDM.
Just wanted to thank you guys so much for all the advice and support you’ve given this late-stage millennial. I hope to give this car the attention she rightfully deserves but preserve her for the day I pass the keys on to someone new.
The other issue I mentioned was my coil packs which were indeed bad and got replaced alongside my spark plugs only to find oil where it shouldn’t be, especially flooding cylinder #7. So that got sopped up and I called my mechanic to schedule an appointment for new valve cover gaskets. While there, my repair bill doubled when he found my intake manifold gaskets I previously thought fixed at the Ford dealership, had about 1” missing of one and a cut in another. Rather than trying to deal with people 100 miles away I just ate the cost then and there. Now there’s no more missfire in cylinder #8 and my engine sounds healthy as ever. He even found the last source of my lean codes being the Cold Air Intake and all I have to do there is bolster the seals with some tube silicone.
Also took the T-Bird to Cars & Coffee this morning, getting plenty of attention as I’m the only one in a sea of Mustangs and JDM.
Just wanted to thank you guys so much for all the advice and support you’ve given this late-stage millennial. I hope to give this car the attention she rightfully deserves but preserve her for the day I pass the keys on to someone new.
