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ROADWARRIORSVT
10-17-2006, 06:06 PM
Well, I had the Mercury Marauder (MM) for almost two years w/o turning a wrench on it. The wife (and I) was quite surprised I lasted that long! I'm still not gonna mess with the motor since its my DD and work car, but just giving it a little pick-me-up via a Performance Industries 3000 stall speed converter and some Ford Racing 4:30 gears. I've also got a very mild tune via a SCT X-Cal2, that was needed anyway to compensate for the gears and converter. Too bad I won't be able to document, via time slips, how these affected the MM. I'll let you know what the SOTP meter says though!! :3gears:


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/roadwarriorsvt/stall004.jpg


Here is the tranny pan after only 30K easy,...ok,...semi easy miles. Yea, I had the yellow lollipop in the pan too.


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/roadwarriorsvt/stall002.jpg


Since I've only been into a couple of tranny pans, I don't know if this amount of metallic sludge is excessive or not. This is the first fluid change and it has all the break-in sludge built up. The magnet has about 1/8" of metallic build up on it!!!


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/roadwarriorsvt/stall001.jpg


Out with the old,....in with the new!


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/roadwarriorsvt/stall003.jpg
ROADWARRIORSVT
10-17-2006, 06:07 PM
OK, I'm at exactly the half way point! :D

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/roadwarriorsvt/stall.jpg
DEFYANT
10-17-2006, 06:09 PM
Congrats. It took awhile, but your assimilated now. The pan crud is normal, well, I had pan crud also so I think that is normal.
Rider90
10-17-2006, 06:10 PM
Sweet! From what I hear you'll like that T/C at WOT. Enjoy!! :beer:
Krytin
10-17-2006, 06:28 PM
Congrats. It took awhile, but your assimilated now. The pan crud is normal, well, I had pan crud also so I think that is normal.
That picture was normal - no problems there!
ROADWARRIORSVT
10-18-2006, 12:13 AM
Thanks for the reassurance ! Got the MM up and running, but there was a problem with the Xcal2 that it wouldn't download the tune. The SCT dealer said it would be OK to drive it, just no WOT passes for now. I can hardly wait.:coolman: