Old poster has new questions on new X

[2001gt]

Hello all, I used to post here back 98-99 when I first bought my navajo. I still have it 111k and not a problem yet. anyways

I bought a 2001 mustang GT, so it became my new project for a while until 4 weeks ago, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world, so the mustang had to go.

But now in the drive way sits a 2000 merc mountaineer 5.0 AWD beautiful truck has 40k on it and is mint shape. My questions to the experts are:

- Is there any known problems I should look for?

- Does any of the chips out there get better gas mileage for the 5.0 or are they strictly for performance? (I know they will improve shift points)

-What other mods would you reccomend? I'm not looking for a 12 second truck ( had that with the stang) And I'm also not looking for a rock crawler (still have the navajo!)

Thanks in advance for any replys


Dan

by the way I used to go by a different name can't remember now what it was, that's why hardly any post

 

[section525]

The only real problem you'll maybe have it the leaky exhaust manifold. If it's not the passenger side manifold cracking.. its the gasket blowing out. A few of us have put aluminum gaskets with locking header bolts that keep the header/manifold nice and tight and that keeps the gasket from blowing out.

But the motor and tranny are both pretty okay. You'll probably have AWD whine too. Just pretend it's a supercharger.