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She and the daughter are OK. They were wearing their seatbelts and she was only doing about 30 mph due to the conditions. She said it was a slow tipover.

The latest in the saga of my little lady and our Aerostar: http://www.southwestangle.com/index_aerostaronside.html

Followup on the 5r55e rebuild: I'm finally cleaning up the garage after the all summer rebuild project. I had the bad valve body laying on the bench and decided to look at the EPS one more time. I wiggled it a little and it dropped out. Wierd, I thought, and, looking at it closer, realized that...

I have no preference. I usually check out the relative pricing and buy according to price/availability, unless I know of a particular problem with one of the parts.

Probably the easiest is to loosen the hose from the upper intake manifold, spray the ether in and re-hook the hose. Then try to start the truck. Most of us don't have a fuel pressure gauge readily available, so the above tricks are quick and easy aids. It could be the fuel filter, but so...

My first diagnostic trick is to fog it with some ether. If it fires on ether, you likely have a fueling problem. If it doesn't fire, pull a plug, reconnect to the plug wire, ground the plug, turn on the key, cross the solenoid to turn the engine over and watch for spark. Thes two tests...

I expected to post here much sooner, but didn't have much positive to post until now. I did get the 5r55e transmission back together and installed in the van in June (after an all-nighter), having planned on using it for a family trip. I started it up and ran it while on the jackstands, but it...

Thanks. I didn't mention that she also tried to fly my F-250 across a ditch, nice flight, but she had a bit of a problem with the landing. She's still a keeper even though the truck was totaled. http://www.southwestangle.com/index_swangle11-10-10.html

I just bought my 4th Aerostar. The first Aerostar was bought new in 1994, and driven to well in excess of 200,000 miles. We had a few problems with it, but a good share of that was related to my wife spinning through a S curve and crinkling the side up on a snowbank (at about 100,000 miles). The...

The transmission rebuild has been a slow process. I'm putting things back together now, slowly. I can see where this isn't a difficult job if you've done it a few times, but bewildering to a certain extent when one is delving in for the first time. The manual is a lifesaver. Will keep...

Thanks for the reply. I still have the '94, but it had starter problems along with losing #4 cylinder, 30 lbs. compression, so It is parked until I have time to resurrect it. I had to swap a 7.3 engine in a friend's F-350, and then bought the '97, so the shop has been full. I ordered a...

"New Aerostar," tranny problem I picked up a 1997 Aerostar AWD that had a transmission problem, though otherwise in good shape. It was slipping and the fluid was very dirty. I pulled the transmission and it took about 20 minutes to take the torque converter off. It appears that the torque...

Oregon and other things... Finally following up on the tranny problem with the Aerostar. I've used it for most of the year, except when it was down with warped heads due to freezing up,then overheating on one of our -30 degree mornings last winter. Got that repaired, and a nephew in Oregon...

Thanks for the posts. I put in the fabricated pin, and the '94 Aerostar tranny works better, but not totally right. Since the van had to head to Oregon from Northwest Minnesota and other things needed work, I called it good. Checked the fluid levels, changed the plug wires and lost the...

I'm working on a transmission problem on the old Aerostar and came across Serious Explorations. Some good info here, I'm off to fabricate a pin for the tranny vacuum control. I'm evidently not the first to lose one (and I was being so careful).