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They had not been touched until oil started leaking onto the exhaust. There was smoke coming from under the hood. Even saw some come in through the heater vents. Checked for leaks and found the source to be near the rear of the passenger side valve cover. 40K miles is too young for old car...

I used 3 or 4 different lengths of extensions, a swivel joint, and both a shallow and deep 10mm socket in different combinations. It seems that several bolts needed their own setup to be reached. Sometimes the swivel was next to the socket, others it was between two extensions. For the...

Re-torqued all of the valve cover bolts... Most required 1/4 to 1/2 turn. Several of them required multiple complete turns (they were not even finger tight). The only bolts that were even close to retaining their original 89 in-lb (but still required about 1/8 turn) were the ones at the front...

Yup, filter swap... My wide mouth catch can does OK for not spilling during the oil pan dump unless the wind is blowing once it gets down to a trickle. I might have to give the bucket a try. How well does it pour out? I usually put the used oil into the empty oil bottle. Hopefully my funnel...

Does oil still get on the under carriage? My power steering wires are directly below and get all oily if I let it go its own way. So do several pieces of metal. Not that big of a deal for the metal but cleaning it up is an added pain and it still is a magnetic for dirt. I'm not a big fan of the...

Mine will change rpm as soon as the clutch pedal comes off the upper switch, before any pressure is applied to the clutch. It will also go up or down with the brake pedal switch when the clutch pedal is down. I suspect that they wanted it to idle at the higher rpm but are reducing the idle...

Mine also allows the rpm to drop during an upshift but hovers at the rpm needed for the next gear for a few seconds. Unless I touch the brake, then it drops to idle without pausing at the next higher gear's rpm.

My 2016 does this as well. If the clutch is pressed rpm goes up. Hold your foot on the brake with the clutch pressed for a few seconds and it goes back down. Release the brake and it pops back up. As mentioned above, likely a programmed anticipation of impending 'go time' . I've wondered if it...

I change my oil when the computer says "go" ... Which turns out to be once per year, so I do it when I swap to the winter tires. Jacking rails and stands to get all 4 wheels off the ground. I have to remove the air dam for better access to the filter (tried it once without and it was a big...

Yup... same with the cops around here. If it wasn't forcibly taken off your person (robbery), they won't even talk to you about it. They are pretty much condoning fraud and essentially "legalizing" it.

This type of thing... https://www.summitracing.com/parts/pwb-648626 Basically boils down to a ball joint or other type remover / puller that can grab onto the hub and press on the "bolt". The Ford tool looks kind of like the one on the bottom but is quite a bit longer.

My standard kit of suspension tools worked fine to press the ball joint taper out of the hub for the rearward control arm. However, on the forward one none of them were big enough to reach over the bolt and the claw type had nowhere to grab. I couldn't find any suspension tools locally that were...

Thanks! I was wondering if the "add-on" price required the original purchase or was good for stand-alone.

Price for the just the funnel and cap for the GT?

I get a clunk sound after heavier than normal braking and changing direction. For example, if I back out of the driveway with enough speed and brake hard enough it seems to "pre-load" the clunk perpetrator. Then when I start to move forward I get the clunk. Same goes for braking to stop...

Hear, hear!

I don't know about the 2019 (not sure when they made the switch), but the 2016 only did WiFi updates when it was connected and sitting in the garage totally off. Mine tried it once and it failed so I disabled that option. When updating live with the USB, the recommendation is to have the...

If you can hear the engine's song from inside the cockpit... your gas mileage just went to shit.

I have driven with the 3 new control arms for a couple of weeks. When the first one (driver rearward) went out, I don't recall noticing much being off with the handling. I discovered it while checking for wheel bearing / steering slop when putting on the summer tires (I give all 4 wheels a...

Yes you can turn off the alarm response in Forscan. There are three options: 1 click and it goes off (default) Double click and it goes off (I use this one and have not had an accidental alarm since) Completely disabled.