I've decided to sale my Cougar, 3.8L V-6 engine the car has not been restored in original condition, daily driver and in excellent condition. 95,000 miles tires great just tuned up and serviced. I'll try and post some pics on here, seems the downloader doesn't work well with my Mac but I'll get a link up asap with pics. Please let me know if you know anyone who is interested in owning a great car to drive or restore. This car is located in North Carolina and has spent most of it's life in a garage.
Thanks Moon I took it off and it wasn't worth cleaning the pintle was stuck and rusty, lol know wonder my car was stumbling I ordered a new one I'll put it on as soon as it arrives in the mail. Motorcraft brands are hard to find but I lucked up on Ebay.
I tuned up my 86 Cougar 3.8L V-6 engine, it was lunging a bit at stops, I replaced the TPS, plugs, wires, rotor, dis cap, Map or Maf, and the electrical part of the EGR valve. The lunging or stumbling has quit and all in all the car is in great running shape, but I decided because I replaced the electrical part of the EGR I should have checked to see if the actual EGR needed cleaning, so my question is should I take it off and clean it, or just replace it? I have 95,000 miles on the car and the EGR is OE.
Did my 86 Cougar OE strut mounts Motorcraft have bearings? My question is if I replace my strut mounts with ones that have bearings will that change the way my car drives handles, I want to keep the OE feel squishy and soft. I know this has been talked about somewhere but not specifically about bearing mounts/verses non bearing mounts, please help I want to fix my ride.
Thanks guys for all the help, took the Cat in for bearings yesterday and sadly the axles were worn scarred, had to use the big thick bearings because no one in my town had axles. I'll run it till these bearings wear out then replace everything back new. pinion gear good, brakes fine, differential gears good, haven't checked control arm bushings yet, but the car is super quiet driving on the road! Money well spent even if the tire store did rip me off.
Might be rear wheel bearings. Which means you might need rear axles. You can get "axle savers", which are bushings that go over the worn part of the axle, but their success as a repair is dubious
So why do you think I'd have a worn axle? And how do you tell, by looking?
How many miles are on the car and does it make the noise all the time or when turning or in reverse only or when the brakes are applied or ???
91,000 miles on the car, makes noise after 30 miles per hour, all the time not much difference when turning, although the hum isn't as loud if you drive over 65 mph. I am going to have the bearing replaced since that will service my differential too, then see what it sounds like, let me know your thoughts, please.
I have a lot of noise in the rear end of my car, sometimes it sounds like the differential other times it sounds like a bearing. My question; do these cars 1986 Cougars have a lot of noise ya know it's an old car, will some of this noise quiet down after replacing the bearings or will I always have some road noise?
So I have a lot of rear end noise in my car, it's driving me nuts so I'm having the bearings replaced, is there anything else that would make a lot of roaring noise other than tires?
First of all jandmmustangs I don't appreciate your rude comment I didn't ask you to serve me anything especially calling me names and asking who I am it's not any of your business who I am, if you don't want to answer then don't! this site isn't a political site thank God, maybe you should get back to your cars and cats you are a rude sob.
