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  1. sdpatt

    On the track at 433,000 miles

    The SHO Convention provided the opportunity to get the SHO back on the road race track and wear out the last bit of rubber off the R-compound tires and farther wear the track pads. The site was Eagles Canyon Raceway in north Texas on July 30 and the track was reserved for the SHO folks, which...
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    MTX shift lever

    This is the second time this has happened on my car. The black phenolc pivot joint bonded to the shifter handle has cracked and now allows the shifter to rotate in my hand. I am looking for the threaded shaft that incudes the black plastic 4-bolt pivot flange that bolts to the top of the shifter...
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    Gen I Air Bag Clockspring Source

    I need to replace the air bag clockspring in my 1991, but have found that Ford has discontinued the part. Has anyone been able to find, fit or cross reference a clockspring that will work in the Gen I SHOs? The parts catalogs show the part for only the Gen III Taurus and it appears not to have...
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    Rod Bearings at 422K

    Long time, no post... I took advantage of my 4-day long Labor Day weekend and spent a day (Friday) making sure the SHO was going to live to drive another day. I had thought I had heard a few instances of rod knock and the SHO-lover and mechanic in me were not willing to let the engine die...
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    Head Gasket Leak - Now Repaired

    This could be one of those decision-maker repairs: is it time to get a new car? A CPO BMW 335i sedan looks pretty good right now. There has been evidence for a while (low coolant without external leaks, blackened residue in the cooling system), but now the case is clear and confirmed. There is a...
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    Cruise Control ON Switch Function

    I have searched, but not found the answer to my question. The cruise control on my 1991 (MTX) stopped functioning while engaged at 65 mph one morning on the way to work. This was after 380,000 miles of operation. I felt the gas pedal "pop" up under my foot that was hovering over the pedal and...
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    Dimensions of the Crankshaft Woodruff Key

    My SHO is going under the knife again to deal with the affects of the ongoing battle against the crankshaft cancer that has ailed my SHO since one of it early 60Ks. The crankshaft wear has caused a widening of the crankshaft keyway and rounding of the crankshaft "shoulder" where the timing belt...
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    First body damage in 17 years

    Well, it had to happen someday. That day was yesterday. My SHO rolled out of its parking place, across the parking lot and wedged its right rear bumper and tailight against the metal bumper of an old Chevy pickup. This was news to me and the truck's owner as we were shopping inside the store. I...
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    sdpatt's 366,000-mile SHO at TWS

    I uploaded the first video of lapping at TWS from this year's run. She passed the 366,000-mile mark during the first day's sessions. The SHO was wearing R compound tires this time. This video has me chasing down a few cars over about 4 laps. I had a great time. Looks like the SHO did too. SHO...
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    Hub centering ring size for aftermarket wheels

    I am looking to replace the aged plasitc hub centering rings on my Freedom Design 2005 wheels. I measured the diameter of the hub as 63.5mm (2.50in) and the bore of the wheel as 72.6mm. The measurements of the old rings themselves revealed 72.5mm and 63.8mm for the two diameters. The old rings...
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    Wheel damaged during a close call

    Friday, January 11 came very close to being my SHO's final day on the road. I had flexed the day off from work (more than 40 hours through Thursday) and had picked up my 1st grade daughter from school and we were casually heading home. I was northbound at 40 mph in the inside lane of a curb...
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    Timing belt job has not gone well

    I replaced the standard parts for the front end 60K service for a gentleman's 100,000 mile, '95 3.0L SHO today and the car still sits in my garage tonight. The parts installed are listed below. Everything seemed to go well with no real surprises found (one exception: see 5th paragraph). I even...
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    Video From Texas World Speedway May 19-20, 2007

    Here are the StreetFire.net links to a few in-car videos that I recently uploaded from the Texas Ford club's outing at the Texas World Speedway on May 19-20, 2007. My 342,000 mile SHO and I had a great time drifting around the fast corners at that track. The only casualties were several thousand...
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    New Titanium Ball Joint

    This topic is related to both suspension and body, so I thought that this would be the best forum for this story. On Wednesday, January 31, 2007, I had some new titanium parts installed to cure a deteriorating condition in a ball joint. Five screws that had been installed during an earlier...
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    The SHO is a Cancer Survivor

    I have been through a tough time with my SHO this last week as I found her crankshaft damper to be loose from wear even though the damper bolt was torqued tightly to the crankshaft. The damper, timing gear and crankshaft had become the victims of crankshaft cancer after the many miles following...
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    Tokico Availability

    I am now forced to deal with the out-of-production state of the Tokico struts that are mounted on my SHO. During the installation of the '96 brake upgrade on September 23-24, I discovered that the gas pressure was conspicuously absent from the right front strut. I had disassembled the...
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    Time for a brake upgrade

    The time has come for me to finally replace the undersized stock front brake hardware on my January 1991 manufactured SHO. I have read in these pages over and over about the benefits of the larger brakes, but I have just been too cheap to go through with it. Now that my last free set, the 7th...
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    The Effects of a Large Spark Plug Gap

    I had read topics in this Forum previously about owners who thought they could improve the performance of their SHO engine by increasing the gap on the spark plugs to a larger than specified value. I replied to some of those topics with posts that the .042"-.046" gap range was specified for a...
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    Ignition Switch Bites the Dust

    Here's another one of those stories where you wonder how long a part can last before it finally gives up and quits. As my 5 year old daughter and I pulled up to Pep Boys on a trip to check out their battery chargers (mostly for the boat battery), I was unable to turn the key far enough to stop...
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    Fog Light Fix

    The fog lights on my SHO had been working intermittently for a few months and finally decided to take the summer off. It was time to seek out and resolve the problem that was preventing the inexpensive, but rather bright Pilot fog lights from lighting my path. I verified the fuse was good...

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