Official Eowyn Mach1 Delivery Thread

[traxiii]

After washing and waxing Eowyn for the first time, I got to see where the paint damage is located. Almost all of it is on the leading edge of the roof line, where it bends down at the top of the wind shield and is vertical. Could have been a good place for Ford to put in a plastic gap filler that could have easily protected it?

After I get the paint repaired, I'm thinking that I'll have a 4 or 5 inch strip of PPF installed to protect it and the area behind it. That's where the rock I actually saw, and heard, hit the roof about 3 inches back from the windscreen, and it left it's mark.

The mirrors and nose look good, as do the sides around and behind the wheel openings. With all the rough treatment on the way home, I don't see a need for any other protection, the arch guards and rear lip worked perfectly. I think losing the Cup2's for PS4S tires helped immensely too, I could really tell the difference in the lack of stones hitting the fender liners. With all the crap thrown at us from all the trucks and road work, I was disappointed, but very happily surprised at the limited damage done.

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[Coastal-Mach]

After washing and waxing Eowyn for the first time, I got to see where the paint damage is located. Almost all of it is on the leading edge of the roof line, where it bends down at the top of the wind shield and is vertical. Could have been a good place for Ford to put in a plastic gap filler that could have easily protected it?

After I get the paint repaired, I'm thinking that I'll have a 4 or 5 inch strip of PPF installed to protect it and the area behind it. That's where the rock I actually saw, and heard, hit the roof about 3 inches back from the windscreen, and it left it's mark.

The mirrors and nose look good, as do the sides around and behind the wheel openings. With all the rough treatment on the way home, I don't see a need for any other protection, the arch guards and rear lip worked perfectly. I think losing the Cup2's for PS4S tires helped immensely too, I could really tell the difference in the lack of stones hitting the fender liners. With all the crap thrown at us from all the trucks and road work, I was disappointed, but very happily surprised at the limited damage done.

PPF on the leading edge of the roof is a benefit. I did mine a foot back, you will be glad you did.

 

[aham23]

did you use any track wrap or temp PPF for the trip home?

 

[traxiii]

did you use any track wrap or temp PPF for the trip home?

Nope

 

[320guy]

After washing and waxing Eowyn for the first time, I got to see where the paint damage is located. Almost all of it is on the leading edge of the roof line, where it bends down at the top of the wind shield and is vertical. Could have been a good place for Ford to put in a plastic gap filler that could have easily protected it?

After I get the paint repaired, I'm thinking that I'll have a 4 or 5 inch strip of PPF installed to protect it and the area behind it. That's where the rock I actually saw, and heard, hit the roof about 3 inches back from the windscreen, and it left it's mark.

The mirrors and nose look good, as do the sides around and behind the wheel openings. With all the rough treatment on the way home, I don't see a need for any other protection, the arch guards and rear lip worked perfectly. I think losing the Cup2's for PS4S tires helped immensely too, I could really tell the difference in the lack of stones hitting the fender liners. With all the crap thrown at us from all the trucks and road work, I was disappointed, but very happily surprised at the limited damage done.

Get the A pillars with roof PPF. It’s about a foot in the roof.

I got a rock chip just above the windshield of my previous mustang. So I added that part this time. Also do the decklid, that thing is a scratch magnet!

 

[traxiii]

Bonneville Salt Flats next to last day.

View of Eowyn aka Road Warrior Princess from our Elko, NV hotel room.

Stopped in Battle Mountain NV. for breakfast on last leg of trip.

Believe it or not, she had a bath somewhere around halfway home.

Finally Home in our driveway!

Cleans up nice, eh?

Last tally of the State "Battle Flags" 10 in first trip, not bad. In order of entry, front to back, bottom to top.

P.S. Just Posted the Cup 2's for sale.

 

[Joker721]

The EG color looks great!

 

[traxiii]

Some bad news. They have been paving the streets in our neighborhood for the last month or so. Two days ago my wife spotted a couple small wet spots on the driveway, but she thought they were water. Got home from a short drive the next day and smelled that gear oil smell. I got out and saw the tray under the diffuser had some drops coming off of it, gear oil! Drove it up on ramps and removed the under-tray with the ducts for the differential cooler and a bunch of oily gravel and this fell out:

It weighs almost a half pound and I put it on a 2" wide roll of painter's tape to show scale. It has a 3/4" hose thread on the one end. WTF! I looked around in the back of the paving Co. trucks, and didn't see anything that jumped out as where it came from. I'm thinking it came off a drum or something, or one of the wash-down systems. The other end has what looks like an O-ring seal, any ideas???

There was ZERO oil anywhere under the car after I removed the tray, and it took a few minutes to find the source of the leak. II thought the bottom would be filthy after all the crap roads we drove, but it looked really clean. I started the engine, and since the pump only comes on when the oil hits a certain temperature, no leaks while idling. Does anyone know what temp. the pump comes on???

Turned out one of the tube/fins on the passenger side, where they stack up and the feed/discharge tube comes, out was bent, and a little wet. It looks like the seam has a tiny crack between tubes. I haven't drained the diff yet to see how much fluid I lost, but it can't be much.

I found a place with a new (what they (Snap-on) call a "coil") cooler in stock on-line, $371 and the better part of a week to get it. I could top off the oil and disconnect the wiring connector to the pump and drive it, but it's been over 100deg. since last weekend, and I'm just going to wait until I have the parts to do it right.

The diff. oil if you go to a Ford dealer is $50/quart. Found it on the same site I got the "coil" from, for $24/quart, and $4 for the friction modifier. When do the cooler install, I'm draining out the old fluid and starting fresh. I did break-in like that with my truck, when I did a gear ratio change and Detroit True-trac install.

I'm very glad that I didn't find that elbow out in B.F. Colorado, could have made for a real bad trip. I'm going to install some wire mesh around the new cooler to protect it from flying debris. I wll take pics when I get it back on the ramps.

 

[aham23]

wait, what? you think it is road debris or a part of the diff cooler? crazy.

 

[traxiii]

wait, what? you think it is road debris or a part of the diff cooler? crazy.

The brass elbow is debris, apparently left by the workers, and kicked up off the ground by my rear tire, around the block from my house. The leak is on/from the cooler. I didn't hear it happen because the road was all ground up (very rough and loud) for repaving and I was on it before I saw it or I wouldn't have turned on to it and there was no place to turn around.

 

[Wingnutzz]

Okay! This is enough of crappy roads and debris for Eowyn and you! MORE THAN ENOUGH!

The brass elbow is debris, apparently left by the workers, and kicked up off the ground by my rear tire, around the block from my house. The leak is on/from the cooler. I didn't hear it happen because the road was all ground up (very rough and loud) for repaving and I was on it before I saw it or I wouldn't have turned on to it and there was no place to turn around.

 

[traxiii]

Okay! This is enough of crappy roads and debris for Eowyn and you! MORE THAN ENOUGH!

The ONLY good thing is the streets in my neighborhood are smooth like a baby's bottom now. My truck is built for that other crap, not my Mach1.

 

[traxiii]

More Crap News. The new replacement cooler I need is on National Back-order until October 5th. I did drain the diff. and I had only lost a couple ounces of fluid. I refilled the diff. and disconnected the pump, and will be driving it around the neighborhood only until I get the new cooler.

 

[murick]

More Crap News. The new replacement cooler I need is on National Back-order until October 5th.

I was waiting for the trans cooler replacement for 3 months. It seems that not only the new cars, but the replacement parts as well are a bridge too far for Ford.

 

[traxiii]

I was waiting for the trans cooler replacement for 3 months. It seems that not only the new cars, but the replacement parts as well are a bridge too far for Ford.

Like I wrote a while back, this is my last new Ford. I blame D.C. and the CCP for most of our production ills, but woke Ford is complicit too.

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