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ChrisFix Windstar Restoration Part 1: Identifying The Problem
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
- In this continuation episode, we have the car brought back home to Queens, and we identify what is missing and/or needed in order to make the car roadworthy. As the age old saying goes, in order to solve the problem, you have to first identify it! Stay tuned for more Windstar content!
My Dad had a Lazer Red Metallic 1996 Ford Windstar , and seeing this van reminds me of ours! Please keep it and restore it to glory as these vans are very rare now and the styling was very modern when these came out! Still looks nice even todays standards. Ours was probably the best van we had out of the 3 (1990 Aerostar- they bought used in late summer of 93 had till 99 fell apart and rusted out had many issues!, the 96 Windstar bought laye fall of 2000 had till 2006, held up well no rust and ran good but could no longer pass an echeck due to bad engine sensors that no one could fix right so was donated! Then a 2005 kia Sedona LX gold was nice loaded but had a shitty transmission and engine got traded in 2014 for a new Sorento suv then. Was last van we had and wasnt as good as that Windstar. My point lol please do updates on this one as its a cool underappreciated van
People laughed at me in December for buying a 99 CR-V that didn't run. I fixed absolutely everything in the truck to make it show quality. Now, I can't even drive down the street peacefully without people wanting to buy it. You'll do good with the Windstar.
Good old B20 if you lived in a smog test free state, not California could add a B16 head for Vtec and ignition coil convention kit for more power
Do another video on the WinStar
Don't hesitate. In the right hands, that van can be put back on the road in a matter of hours. Quick fix is my thought. I'll even donate time for detail after next week. I'm from Jersey City but get my cars fixed in Long Island city, Queens on 21st and 38th.. ( King of Queens auto)
Anything new on this van it’s been a few months?
The critics need to get over it: this is his nostalgia. I’m laughing at the guys roasting the 3.8 V6 - it might not be the most brilliant design, but this one has already gone 311,000 miles. Maybe one of the bigger causes of unreliability was lack of maintenance by cheap owners. A lot of once common cars are now rarely seen, that’s the way it works for about 95% of all cars made - they get scrapped.
Still cracks me up that ford was still selling the nissan quest clone Mercury Villager at the same time, and that it was built in a ford plant but not the windstar plant. Why ford wanted to sell the villager as a rebaadged nissan instead of a rebadged windstar ill never understand.
The underside tire is actually the emergency "Donut" tires
That ford 3.8 ate head gaskets cuz its iron block aluminum heads. It had a horrible rep back in the 90s. Ford reverse engineered the almighty buick 3800 and failed.
There's also lots of other Automotive engines out there mate that have cast iron blocks and Aluminum cylinder heads that don't have have head gasket problems unless you were to run them with no coolant from a smashed radiator for example, just with Ford stuff alone, look at the 16 Valve 4.6 Modular V8, they too have iron blocks and Aluminum heads and not often do they blow head gaskets. The main purpose of Aluminum Cylinder heads is cause they dissipate heat alot better than Cast iron heads, but can also cause head gasket problems if not designed properly like with these 3.8 Fords as they expand at a different rate than what Cast Iron does.
Literally just had my 2000 Windstar running for 1 month after it sat dead because of pcm death for 2 years. At 142k original miles and 1 month back on the road (1,500 miles engine flushed and new fluids done) the head gasket blew. I was able to source a new engine and trans, but now need to find a pcm. :(
@@HawkeyeMobileAutoRepairJust take it too the scrap yard mate.
0:48 Also mate, Look through Chrisfix's Windstar videos and look for the Alternator replacement video, he put that Alternator on in 2012, the year the world was supposed to end, but hey 11 years later the world is still here and so is that Alternator.
Waste of Money mate, you'll get it running just to find out that the transmission is no good and needs to be rebuilt and/or the 3.8 V6 has cracked cylinder heads from being overheated so many times as these always blow head gaskets and then letting hot combustion gasses into the cooling system making them overheat. These early Ford Windstars were for sure one of of the worst vehicles ever made, I feel bad for all the taxi fleets in the mid 1990's that bought them and expected them to last, which they didn't. Even if you were to get it running and driving, you'll never get back whatever money you dump into it in resale.
I dont think he is planning to make money on this this project. Its for nostalgic reasons
@@scottlarsh3119Well best not to let Nostalgia take over your common sense mate, maybe lots of people who grew up in the 90's had lots of memories in these including sitting at the side of the road in them waiting for a tow truck, but it doesn't matter how much work he puts into it, it will always only be worth scrap value and will be a nightmare to remove and replace the AXOD/AX4S transaxle when the time comes.