Ok I used the first VIN lookup that popped up, I looked at it and after the long drive and dragging a trailer and the grief me wife gave me I just could not buy it. The pictures must have been from 10 years ago. I’m a redneck but a different red neck reran some of the wiring under the dash...
Guys I just ran the VIN of the one I’m looking at tomorrow and if it says it’s a 5 speed manual but the owner is telling me it’s an automatic? So weird, from what I have learned here that swap is no joke.
The VIN is 1FALP54P9PA223323 Maybe one of you would get a different result.
My memory is definitely cloudy, been a hard 25years since then and it being my first car it was perfect you know. I do remember my dad being furious about replacing the clutch and something about replacing the spark plug wires
Thank you. It’s red with gray interior, I have removed and replaced transmissions in Land Rovers before but these are two very different beasts. My 89 was manual and if I remove the auto relatively speaking how hard is going in with a manual? The people selling it said they were scrapping...
Thank you for that info, with the transmission not shifting out of first are there any pets I should buy before the 2 hour drive over there that I might be able to swap in to see if they help? Also of course it will need a trans drain and fill with me filter a few times. Is there anything...
Thank y’all. I am going to look Sunday with my buddy who’s a mechanic and has that super expensive snap on scanner deal. He says he can tell me what’s wrong with the not shifting. So for the cost of dinner for me the wife two teenage boys I can have another Taurus SHO. I will buy it and...
A long long time ago the bank loaned me money to buy my first car and it was an 89 SHO manual. I drove it until the Iowa salt took it from me. I am now looking at a 93 automatic with 200k that sometimes won’t shift out of first otherwise good shape. I understand that it could be an easy...