MaddMaxx in Des Moines
I have midnight blue metallic 1993 3.2L ATX with cloth/leather. :wave: We bought it new (September 1993) in Newton from Axtell. Someone had ordered it in, and never took delivery of it. We traded in a Merkur XR4Ti black/black leather two-door (4-cylinder turbocharged, imported German Ford product). Our first son was about 10 months old at the time, and we needed the four door, but momma still wanted her giddyup. We are now at 151K and on our third transaxle (counting the original). The SHO Forum indicates that drastic changes were made to the 1994 AX4N transaxle (from the AX4S model), in utilizing more steel components over aluminum. So, if it goes again, I am going to a 1995 Continental for a replacement.
In the past week, I put KYB gas struts (GR-2) on the back, two new calipers on the back and did part of the long-over-due 100K upper job. I am expecting a proportioning valve any day now. My left rear caliper is not receiving any fluid, and the piston in the proportioning valve doesn't even move. I will put on the front KYB's this weekend, and also replace the poorly-performing Bosch plugs that I put in last weekend, with the Denso iridiums that I just bought today.
In 1976, I owned a new 1976 Yamaha XS750 3-cylinder, shaft drive motorcycle. Then it was the rice burners versus the hogs, MotoGuzi's and the BMW's. Whenever you guys talk about kicking the ricers around, you have to remember that it is the rice burner under your hood that gives your SHO its mystique and muscle!!!
