My (New to Me) 1997 T-Bird

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My (New to Me) 1997 T-Bird

Reply #120 – December 30, 2010, 08:21:07 PM

Joe if you do that then plan a trip up here to my town also dude. :poke:

Dan & Paula ;)

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Reply #121 – December 30, 2010, 08:22:43 PM

oooohhh maybe thats it. Yes, AHA! Maybe its at his house but he doesn't want us to think that so he phonied up some pics of it being towed away when really they brought it right back.

How very very clever my good man. But I have seen through your ruse and your hand has been beaten. You should know that you were a worthy opponent but in the end, however close you may have been, you receive no cigar friend. So close, but still no cigar.

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Reply #122 – September 11, 2014, 01:36:37 PM

Holy necro-post Batman....

Three years and nine months to the day, I have my Thunderbird back from the shop I brought it to for the two-cylinder bolt on kit. $2300 later I still have just a little bit of buttoning up to do on the project.

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Reply #123 – September 13, 2014, 07:52:54 AM

Wow... The car was getting worked on for three years, nothing's hooked up anywhere and I still managed to lose two quarts of transmission fluid while it's sat the past couple of days...

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Reply #124 – September 24, 2014, 05:27:22 PM

Well, I have a list of things I need to finish the car I was told was ready to go aside of a transmission line, or cable, or something.

Right off the top, I need all of the pulleys but the one I had to find. The alternator, the bolts from the front of the engine, the carb spacer, oh let's see... valve cover gaskets, a dip stick, and the list goes on.

I could have done twice the job in half the time. And to top it all off, I had to get the cops involved just to even get ta time to go pick up the car. Some people.

If I had it to do over again, I'd have done it myself and eff'ed it up less.

Oh well, lesson learned :-)

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Reply #125 – September 25, 2014, 08:16:13 AM

Looks like someone got in over their head and pushed it to the back of the shop. This is exactly why I do all of the wrench turning on my car and change the oil on it myself. The guy that owned that shop would have had a shaging limp if that were my car.

Darren

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Reply #126 – November 20, 2014, 10:35:34 AM

Quote from: Aerocoupe;438314

Looks like someone got in over their head and pushed it to the back of the shop. This is exactly why I do all of the wrench turning on my car and change the oil on it myself. The guy that owned that shop would have had a shaging limp if that were my car.

Darren

Well, they got over their head, pushed it to the back of the shop and the motor seized. No wonder he kept avoiding my phone calls every time. And to think, a set of junk spark plugs would have avoided the mess he's gotten himself into. I don't understand how some people can do that kind of shiznit.

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Reply #127 – December 09, 2014, 07:29:20 PM

For those curious, it was Speedy's ler & Dyno who is responsible for the mess in the pictures.

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Reply #128 – May 08, 2015, 06:04:29 PM

Oh oh oh, I learned more after the motor was pulled. Turns out a "Ford guy" needs to go back and learn what parts go on a manual transmission car and what parts go on an automatic car. Wow...

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Reply #129 – June 01, 2015, 03:34:58 PM

Wow, what a joke. No spacer on the rear of the engine caused the tq converter to lock up and push up against the bell housing, no bolts were in the tq convert. Things that shouldn't have been cut were cut off the side of the transmission.

If I would have known all of what was going to be messed up, I wouldn't have trusted the fool to work on a tricycle

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Reply #130 – January 18, 2016, 05:46:01 PM

A new project is in the works, now. Found the car I was looking for and trying to haggle with the guy to get the price I need in order to make it financially responsible for me :-)

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Reply #131 – January 18, 2016, 06:29:34 PM

What car, and what happened with the 97?

Welcome back.

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Reply #132 – January 18, 2016, 06:35:23 PM

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What car, and what happened with the 97?

Welcome back.

Thanks

Check page 13 of this thread for what happened to the '97. Replaced it with the '05 Mustang for my wife, though.

I am looking at an '86 Escort GT that is the twin to my first car so I can use that as a base for another project.

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Reply #133 – January 19, 2016, 01:27:07 AM

I see, didn't realize you got rid of it.

Best of luck on your new project.