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Gents, The driver side idler pulley is just starting to make a bit of noise (I can only hear it with the hood up and my ears within a couple of feet of the pulley with the engine running of course). My 2005 GT has 86,000 miles on it, so I know that I am going to replace the belt as well even...

A LOT of stupid ass answers to this thread. Don't you have more important things to do than display your ignorance? I guess not. First response: Start it right away. Fail. Try this: You are at a drive in (Sonic in my case). You pull up, stop your car, order some food then sit there and...

So you messed with a terminal yesterday. The car stalls today. You have to mess with the SAME terminal to get it to crank after it stalls. So WHY are you online asking what the problem is when you ALREADY have you hand on it???? 99.999% of the time, when you do something and immediately...

Never mind! The problem was I was looking at the connectors on the FRONT of the SJB, but the one I need is on the BACK of this little bastard! My plan was to use a piece of enameled magnet wire with the insulation burned off the end to tap the connector without doing any physical damage...

Gents, I FINALLY got around to losing the Shaker 500 head unit and am wiring in a Kenwood DNX890HD. This system has provisions for reverse and forward cameras (not currently purchased), so I wanted to get all the wiring done while I am in install mode. The problem I have encountered is that...

Of course, it was pointed out to me that this is a return system, so the pumps ARE running at 100% all the time... Now I'll work at removing my foot from my mouth...

This statement is simply not true EXCEPT in the case were the pumps are running at 100% output. At any other time, it will take less voltage and (therefore) less current to each of the THREE pumps to provide the same volume at the same pressure. Since power (aka: heat) = voltage * current (and...

Not arguing the advantages, but stock 2005-2010 GT rotor are 12.4" and these rotors iare 13.2". That's diameter, not radius, so the caliper is (13.2-12.4)/2" further out or 0.4". That is still a decent improvement, especially for repetitive braking. One way or the other, it is definitely a...

You should help a buddy change the clutch in an '87 Ford diesel pickup. The freaking EMPTY aluminum case weights around 150 lbs BEFORE all the steel crap goes in!

Just to expand a bit, Bruce has it right. The rear O2 sensors have one and one job ONLY: they are used to determine the efficiency of the cats. They play NO role in the operation of the engine. But because they are "testing" emissions hardware, the PCM will set a code, light the MIL and your...

Sorry, I don't. I bought mine back in 2007 or so. Needless to say, I don't remember the model number now! I do remember that you need to either get the kit for the S197 or buy the correct adapter for it. The S197 does not use the same brake reservoir as the earlier Mustangs. I ended up with...

The HID kit I put in my 05 was a Bi-xenon kit made by Phillips in Germany. It was about 3 times more expensive than the Chinese specials you find all over fleaBay, but it has worked perfectly for years. Having looked at several other kits, the external quality of the Phillips kit was...

Deionized water will work. Distilled water will work. RO water will work. Actually, I would probably prefer to use RO as the water isn't as chemically active as deionized water is (water HATES being by itself, worse than the average teen by FAR!). Just don't dump the crap from your tap into...

Do yourself a favor and get a Motive pressure bleeder. Mine has worked perfectly on every vehicle I have ever used it on (including my 05 GT) and it allows a single person to perfectly bleed and flush the brake system. Because of the constant flow out of the caliper (versus the short pulse you...

Infant child failure? Or lots of mods???

Thanks for the correction!

I've had that code several times on my '05. The fix was always the same: remove and reinstall the cap. The code would clear on it's own in a few days, or I could clear it manually if I didn't want to see the MIL.

The concept is easy. The implementation is a bitch. The heat range of a plug is just an indication of how quickly the plug moves heat from the tip (and ground) of the plug to the head of the engine. Period. Here is the problem if a plug is too "cold" (aka: there is a "shorter" thermal path...

There is almost always a damn good reason Ford (or any manufacturer) will label a bolt as one use only. Usually, it is because the torque specs on the bolt are pushing it closer to (or past like head bolts) the linear to plastic deformation transition region. There are good reasons to operate...

I've had my PCM replaced in my 05. It took about 5 minutes for the tech to PHYSICALLY place the PCM and then another hour or so to finish the programming. Heck, 10 minutes of that was simply WAITING before it would initialize the PATS system. They include the wait so a rogue dealer tech with...

Let me see if I am understanding this statement correctly. You say "Battery reads close to 12V" meaning with or WITHOUT the engine running???? If that is with the engine off, then maybe a bit low, but nothing to scream about probably. Then, you say "and alternator reads close to 14 volts"...

Sorry to hear that! Keep us updated with what you find during the tear-down!

I sort of agree with you in spirit, but the computer will react THOUSANDS of times faster than us meat bags can. The brain is incredible in what it can do, but reacting to events in the microsecond (or even millisecond) time frame is NOT one of the things it can do. And that applies to race...

And one more very happy customer of JLT! I was one of the folks that had a problem with the first generation tube. When I had problems with it, it had enough miles and time on it I didn't even think about warranty. When I called Jay to see how much just the tube would cost (Note: I wasn't...

Plug in your flash tool and datalog the oil pressure directly from the PCM. That should VERY quickly show you any differences between factory and AEM oil pressure readings.