Stupid f***ing POS car!

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The Cougar. f**k a bunch of it. I hate it!

Funny that, how they don't have cars named after dirty old men, like the Creeper or the Chickenhawk.

Anyway, my sympathies on the car issues; would it be the infamous 3.8L engine of the mid-90s? Eater of head gaskets, that one

My guess is it maybe the 2.5 Durajunk (duratech) engine that had oil starvation problems. I don't know how many spun bearings in the bottom end I have seen due to this! I think this existed from like '99 till '03 or '04 and ford has NEVER admitted to the problems that I am aware of. At any rate, I hope things start going better for you soon OliveOilMom.

87 V6

I believe that is the old 3.8L. What is it doing or not doing?

Hope you get it fixed soon,car problems are misery

Can't wait to hear the details.

Poor Cougar....

It is a Ford product,I always heard Ford stood for.
Fix Or Repair Daily
Fixedup Old Rebult Dodge
Found On Road Dead
Found On Russian Dump

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08cp9AL_7F0[/youtube]

I was raised on Chevy and did not want to be the first to kick someone when they're down, but there's also:

Fvcked On Race Day
Flip Over Read Directions

and in reverse:
Driver Returns On Foot


But really if they wanted an economical V engine from Germany so bad they should have used the V4 out of the Taunus, Otherwise Australia's got it right in keeping with the straight 6s - good mileage, better than average power and smooth as glass. Oh, cheap and lazy manufacturers can't get a straight 6 under the hood with all the FWD crap, that's why the I6 is extinct in Mexamericanada,


All I can suggest is to get the copper-ringed head gaskets and spray the Permatex copper gasket spray on each mating surface

I used to have a Lincoln with that 3.8L engine in it, I could smell the leaking antifreeze due to the bad head gaskets. I got rid of it just in time. a mechanic told me that what ford used to do to "mitigate" the problem was tighten down those head bolts extra tight.

I was also raised GM,the most common truck here is the Chevy.Not that I think their new products are any good.take an old 72 Chevy truck with a 350 and you could always find a part for it and fix it yourself,maybe used the gas,but dependable as all get out.
My car is a 86 Pontiac 6000 STE,I love it,one of the best cars GM ever built.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkGtRanOD8[/youtube]

I used to own its relative, an '86 chevy celebrity. rode very well, had the same chassis as the Cadillac sedan de ville.

Mine has an air compressor built into the trunk,I have no fear of flats,plus I carry two spares,the donut and a fullsize,plugs and fixaflat.
This car smooths out the roughest roads and you can take a curve at twenty over suggested speed.

I think the very first car my late father had that would do over a hundred, was a Pontiac.

Ah yes, cars from the USA...

We always called them "Yank Tanks."