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  1. krewat

    Track bar/panhard bar (rear) breakage?

    The arm itself is gone. It completely disappeared. At first, I thought, well, the front weld broke and the arm dropped down into the pavement and broke off the back. Nope, that rear bushing is stiff and no way that went down into the pavement first. It's like hitting the stem of a wine glass...
  2. krewat

    Track bar/panhard bar (rear) breakage?

    Hey everyone... sorry for the delay in reporting back. Still thinking things through. Turns out, the trailing arm I got from the Ford dealer has the wrong bushing in it, compared to what came on my car. In a few hours, I will have what I think is the correct one from Tasca coming in the mail...
  3. krewat

    Track bar/panhard bar (rear) breakage?

    Yeah, weird thing is it ONLY sheared that part. I think what I hit was the straw that broke the camel's back. Let me get better pics of the broken weld.
  4. krewat

    Track bar/panhard bar (rear) breakage?

    It's not the toe-adjuster. I already had to change it on that side because the tie-rod-end got rusty during COVID, and got sloppy. My car came with the forged toe-adjusters. "Track bar" is what it's called on Tasca, 5500B in the attached pic. The weld at the round end looks like it failed...
  5. krewat

    Track bar/panhard bar (rear) breakage?

    Anyone seen one of these break? I think I ran over something on the highway today, and heard a BANG. Right rear panhard bar broke at the front joint, looks like, dropped on the ground and broke off. I was doing around 60 at the time. Might not have been whatever I ran over, or maybe it was and...
  6. krewat

    cannot find rear diff

    I sometimes look at used parts this way: It lasted this long, we got a runner. It's already broken in.
  7. krewat

    Very Impressed . . .

    Who's tune?
  8. krewat

    Trunk opens by itself and over head lights come on

    Does the trunk pop if you walk up to the car with the fob on you? Trunk button near the license plate is known to short out.
  9. krewat

    This car is the definition of stealth

    Just make sure you're wearing a pair of aviator Ray-Bans, and you're good to go ;)
  10. krewat

    2013 SHO Software Issues

    Oil life is supposed to be based on temperature, duty cycle, etc. So yeah, flat out highway use, it's slow, and then if you do a lot of stop-and-go, heavy acceleration and/or run up the oil temp, it's going to move faster. I noticed my 2018 is a little less sensitive on the warnings than my...
  11. krewat

    Audi Rs3

    If you can stomach owning a Volkswagen, then go for it ;) Sorry, couldn't resist.
  12. krewat

    HID part number for assembly?

    Then I'll do my best to fix it right ;)
  13. krewat

    HID part number for assembly?

    Not the bulb wire, the part of the harness that's inside the housing that supplies power and switch to the HID ballast. Or is that a part of the main wiring harness and not a separate piece? It looks like the main harness plugs into the back of the housing, and the internal part is a separate...
  14. krewat

    HID part number for assembly?

    Does that include the wiring harness that is inside the housing? Turns out, the water caused electrolysis, and the +12V feed totally annihilated itself taking the ballast connector with it.
  15. krewat

    HID part number for assembly?

    Anyone got a part # for the entire Driver's side assembly for a 2018 Taurus? Some numbnuts scraped my front bumper a little more than a week ago, cracked the headlight, and then it rained. The HID started to STAY on, so I had to remove the fuse, and then it went totally out. I'm wondering if...
  16. krewat

    I did a thing ...

    From someone who has had a 2013, 2016, and now a 2018, all with the PP, I can say: The 2016 was weird. The rear-end was "squirrelly" to me. At the time, I just drove it and didn't really question it. Then I got my 2018, and everything was right with the world again. I can't put my finger on...
  17. krewat

    HPTuners Updates for 2013-2017 Taurus SHO

    AWD control... hmm... Why are 2018/2019 SHOs any different?
  18. krewat

    Windshield Washer Fluid Sensor?

    Should be a warning in the left-hand dash display.
  19. krewat

    APIM module Sync 3

    Ditto this. Also remove any USB devices besides the phone. With my 2016 and 2018, the only times I get lag on the controls is when it's reindexing the USB stick I always have inserted, or right after startup. I played around with Android Auto a few times, but didn't really like it as much as...
  20. krewat

    Melling now has a High Volume Oil Pump for the 3.5L EcoBoost

    There are pros and cons to a high volume pump. If the engine is tight (newly rebuilt?), it just dumps the extra volume out the bypass valve. But once the engine loose is loose (high mileage) it can help keep the engine from starving for oil at low RPMs. Conversely, it can flood the heads if...

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