Recent content by 96firephoenix

Got a crack on the passenger's (rh) side valve cover. Wouldnt care except it's dripping onto the hot exhaust manifold and smoking up a storm. The only replacement valve cover I've found is labelled 2004+. What changed in 04 to where i cant use this on my 2002? Just from looking at the picture...

Honestly i think i got them from an eddie Bauer expedition. The EB And limited trim should have the switches... Anything With the auto climate control.

before you do anything, rinse all of that dry chem off and blow out your alternator with compressed air. That stuff will corrode everything...

getting more common than that. It sticks out to me when I see one that isn't busted now.

How to: - 4th gen hatch swap on 3rd gen Explorer DONE!!!

Must be a year-specific thing... my 02 has aluminum fenders and hood.

But did you do more than a visual check? jack up that corner and try to yank the wheel back and forth from the top and bottom. If they were replaced with chinesium they might be brand new and still bad. Given the rust you mentioned, i'd say to pick up that wheel and give it a good strong yank...

sounds like strut, sway bar link, tie rod end, or ball joints.

access to an angle grinder would also probably get them out intact... heat might be an enemy of the plastic.

if they aren't both heated, you probably have a manual passenger seat. I'm not sure the power unheated passenger seat was ever made.

I've got power heated front seats in my XLS that originally had manual seats, so I think I qualify as an expert on this subject. Edited to rearrange my thoughts a little and clarify. The memory module can not be made to work in a car that doesn't have the supporting wiring and other modules...

AFIK that got axed by a trademark infringement claim from ford. Ford actually uses a stick-on accessory for some newer models, and the ones that work on older models are not available anymore that I can find. It's not just the door. It's also the keyless entry module, the central security...

neither of those is an easy update. There's a lot of inter-connected modules that you'd need to pull the module and wiring harness from the 02. Even then, there were some mid-year changes that might prevent them from working even if you did move them over.

totally doable, especially with the donor car. second row should also be swapped over (I'd do all 3 rows or at least the front covers just to match the whole way around)

They are just ordinary plastic, I think they had a piano black finish back in the day...