What did you do to your car today?
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Leadfoot281
What?! Me worry?
I put collector plates on my Marauder last week. No more buying stickers every 2-3 years. It now has 73k miles. It also got a new Motorcraft battery and an oil change last week. The tech told me the tires were 16 years old. I guess I should consider some new tires one of these days. He also remarked about how good they looked with no checking/cracking.
I do occasionally consider selling it but when I think about someone else owning it, I put it back in the garage and forget about it for a few years. lol.
I do occasionally consider selling it but when I think about someone else owning it, I put it back in the garage and forget about it for a few years. lol.
Pulled Silver out for CA SMOG… Battery had died due to lack of use (two years), got it all detailed, lubber, and road ready and drove it an hour up into mountains to a local infamous burger house. Then back to get it smogged. Cleaned it again and put it back into garage.
Car is CRANKY and jumpy from not being driven enough. I warned the smog tech guy (they smogged them all for over a decade and love Marauders) and he smoked the tires by accident and it scared him. Later that day while backing the Silver it into its space in garage (slight up hill and narrow) half way into the space the car stopped, I touched the gas peddle ever so slightly, and rear broke loose, and I damn near made my house a drive through. Barely, barely, barely stopped in time. Now have two foot long “patches” on finished garage floor. Will take photo next time car is out. You won’t believe it. Trickle Charged the Black‘s battery and will repeat most of above this week.
Car is CRANKY and jumpy from not being driven enough. I warned the smog tech guy (they smogged them all for over a decade and love Marauders) and he smoked the tires by accident and it scared him. Later that day while backing the Silver it into its space in garage (slight up hill and narrow) half way into the space the car stopped, I touched the gas peddle ever so slightly, and rear broke loose, and I damn near made my house a drive through. Barely, barely, barely stopped in time. Now have two foot long “patches” on finished garage floor. Will take photo next time car is out. You won’t believe it. Trickle Charged the Black‘s battery and will repeat most of above this week.
loud2004marquis
"Flyin Brian"
Drove it and burned some rubber!
Leadfoot281
What?! Me worry?
Apparently my air suspension pump is in-op. The car rides and drives fine but I don't hear pump run when I start the car.
I wish I knew what I was doing. On one hand I'd like to keep the car forever, on the other hand, selling it would help get me into something else. I put a single tank of gas through it about every three years. I had 70k miles on it in '09. Now it's up to almost 74k miles. Some would call that crazy...myself included.
Of course, once it's gone, it's gone for good. If I sold it today, I bet it would end up in a salvage yard within five years. That's probably my only reason for hanging onto it.
I'm not sure if I own the car or it owns me.
I wish I knew what I was doing. On one hand I'd like to keep the car forever, on the other hand, selling it would help get me into something else. I put a single tank of gas through it about every three years. I had 70k miles on it in '09. Now it's up to almost 74k miles. Some would call that crazy...myself included.
Of course, once it's gone, it's gone for good. If I sold it today, I bet it would end up in a salvage yard within five years. That's probably my only reason for hanging onto it.
I'm not sure if I own the car or it owns me.
loud2004marquis
"Flyin Brian"
Looked at it.
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photog
BackinBlack
My 2004 just had the engine overhauled but when I driving the car home I noticed the alarm light next to my vent blinking twice pausing and then blinking twice again. Also while the horn does beep with the panic button the alarm does not go off when I open the door from the inside with the alarm supposedly activated. Not quite sure what to do as I need my car alarm.
BAD MERC
Active member
I relocated my oil gauge to the A pillar gauge pod. Mine's been waiting patiently for the Eaton swap big parts to begin installation. Beforehand I installed the heat exchanger (Frozen Boost) and boost/AFR gauges on the pillar. Those have a tendency to consume time if they're installed with a high degree of care and detail. I began my install with the small parts first to avoid that "hardware store at 7:50pm" appearance we've ALL seen.
With the proper tune it's probably not necessary to have AFR in my constant line of sight. The oil (with real gauge) is crucial and will be seen more easily if anything goes wrong with the relocated filter and hoses.
With that completion I have my critical sweeping gauges in my line of sight and voltage/AFR in the console.
As far as details, in my line of work occasionally I'll score ENTIRE vehicle wiring harnesses so any and all wires I extend will use matching colors/gauge and all connections are solder/heat shrink with the entire length of the new harness wrapped in Tesa tape.
With the proper tune it's probably not necessary to have AFR in my constant line of sight. The oil (with real gauge) is crucial and will be seen more easily if anything goes wrong with the relocated filter and hoses.
With that completion I have my critical sweeping gauges in my line of sight and voltage/AFR in the console.
As far as details, in my line of work occasionally I'll score ENTIRE vehicle wiring harnesses so any and all wires I extend will use matching colors/gauge and all connections are solder/heat shrink with the entire length of the new harness wrapped in Tesa tape.
Jorozco1984
New member
Im trying to figure out how to remove the intake so I can clean and paint it, any ideas??
fastblackmerc
Everything Marauder, LEDs & HI
Look at it..... remove anything attached to the intake, then remove the intake.....