The bottom idler pulley helps to keep the belt from jumping over some teeth at the crank in the event the engine turns over backward a few times in a...
Well it appears that the starter hole needs more than just the threads removed, it needs to be about half a hole higher up. I made a drill guide and...
I cleaned out the filter screen of all the stuff that looked like lint ( ? ) got one of Gil Younger's replacement pump pressure valves and made it...
The Zetec I put in my sedan is the same way since I put it in. Roughest damn slow idle ever. My headlights rattle at slow idle. I call it the '...
Southeast Michigan I have a zx2 bumper cover thing in my yard. Free to anybody could use it. Came off the 99 zx2 I got my Zetec out of
Auburn and Butler near the top. Got some gas by I think Angola for 2.19. It is like 2.50 here in Mich.
Drove it back home from Auburn Indiana to Howell Mi. It was very cold this weekend but started good and trans is still working okay.
At 84,000 miles it just has to be something dumb. Something that got clogged from sitting around a lot
I just got back from a small road trip to Indiana for a wedding in the Zetec powered sedan that a couple weeks ago experienced a complete lack of...
Woops, sorry. I used a 21mm wrench. A 13/16 is a bit tight
You say you went to start it , it went ' bang ' and now it runs like crap. A ZX2 Zetec. Well, this kind of rings a bell and I'll explain so try and...
I personally would recommend at least starting with taking the pan off to see the condition of the filter screen and whatever might be in your pan,...
Yeah, I bet they do. My son used the Harbor Freight siphon tool with a small diameter hose down the dipstick last year. He could only get a quart at...
Drove it about 100 miles the other day, it seemed to work pretty good but it does seem a little ' lazy ' like you described. zzyzzx - if you changed...
This whole forum has been helpful to me. I just try to help back, with a dumb story or pictures or whatever. I commenced in attempting to order one...
Like denisond3 said, when I first came on FEOA I was in the middle of having my 93 trans all apart and the only real differing factor in running ATF...
I took the pan off and cleaned out the filter ' box '. I found a bunch of stuff in the screen and at the bottom of the drained oil that looked like...
Something like that you pretty much have to build a tube frame and make the most of the car body fit over it. Unless you want something barely...
I once worked on an early front wheel drive car ( 70s -early 80s ) that had no pump pressure. It had a vane pump and the center drive spline had worn...
Maybe one that has other than a ford stock head. I know I wanted to try another SPI with a head from CHI but then thought I would go the Zetec swap....
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