February '25 Chat -- Ya Just Gotta Love Duramax Diesels!
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Going to help a friend rebuild the front suspension, steering, etc on his Mercury Monterey this weekend. Struts are shot. One bad hub. Bad ball joint. And possible warped rotors.
Never even heard of a Mercury Monterey until he asks me for help on his. Apparently they weren't well liked and not many were sold. Eventually discontinued. So a bit rare. He just happens to be one of the few that purchased one.
Never even heard of a Mercury Monterey until he asks me for help on his. Apparently they weren't well liked and not many were sold. Eventually discontinued. So a bit rare. He just happens to be one of the few that purchased one.
Gues he's got a minivan vs a land yatch
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Ford Windstar - Wikipedia
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Yeah, plates usually cost me upwards of $600 for our cars, too. I just wish all the money went towards the roads like its supposed to, not into the general fund and then "distributed" like our current system does.
They didn’t take off like they thought they would and OE parts were rather expensive
4 vehiclesTime to bribe the government to allow me to exercise right to travel with common means of the day.. glad I'm not in California
Got 2 year tags for 2 of the 5 vehicles
1 trailer
1 street legal SXS
The state of Ohio loves me
My trailer is September everything else is February.. I did find I can plate my FL70 for non commercial for like ~300 a year and insurance for about 2k a year for full coverage without numbers, might do that next year
MinivanGues he's got a minivan vs a land yatch
Ford Windstar - Wikipedia
Mercury Monterey - Wikipedia
We are vehicle and insurance poor between my wife and I with our 3 kids lol. We currently have 15 vehicles tagged and insured cause I can't get rid of anything. Of those 6 are duramax's, 2 are TDI's. If I was smart I would thin the fleet out but I'm an idiot and my wife doesn't give me any shit about it cause you never know when you will need one of the backups.
I think we can go out to 10 years in Ohio.. I know 5 for sure.. and I can get permanent non expired plates for trailers
Michigan trailer plates are one-time only purchase. Lifetime plates. Rates vary by weight.
My gooseneck is $10 for 5 years in California. It's registered as a utility trailer
Doing some organizing/cleaning, found some old parts catalogs
Soaking wet out in the rain, but managed to replace the struts, rod ends, stabilizer links and rotors on my friends Monterey. Need to do the rear shocks now. Test drive. No more vibration when braking and steering feels much more tight. No more nose diving when braking hard
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Well K1 speed opened up about a month or so ago in Columbus Ohio, been making some friends in the SCCA stuff, went a got signed up found out you get a free race within 7 days of your DOB..
Well. I'm not fast but I'm not slow either, little over 1.00sec off from breaking into top 100 for a rusty soon to be 43yo
Well. I'm not fast but I'm not slow either, little over 1.00sec off from breaking into top 100 for a rusty soon to be 43yo
