Happy new year 2011 to everyone on the forum! A newbie calling from southeast Finland, i live in a town named Kotka (Eagle town). I´ve had a couple MoPar:s and a one GM STW before, but now I own my very first US-Ford, a 1983 LTD Country Squire.
Sorry, ain´t got no photos yet, but I will sure post or link ´em when I have a camera. This LTD of mine is made in Canada and exported from Florida to Finland 1989. In 1980´s, Finland had a very strange car tax system. One of it´s curiosities was, that car which had enough trunk space(=STW), could be registered as a van - this lowered the tax which is paid every year. The only bad thing was, that the original back seat had to be removed. You could had a backseat that would look like an original but it had to be removable due to this lower tax.
My LTD is sleeping over the winter - southern Finland has been covered by snow since november. Snow thickness is now 16-28 inches (40-70 cm). Thanks to low temperatures, roads are not salted. My winter car is Lada VAZ 21073 - made in Russia.
Pretty rare in USA, I guess. And actually pretty rare in Finland nowadays too, when all of them are exported back to Russia.
I´ve had only driven the LTD from the previous owner´s place to my place yet, 250 mls about, since we made the deal at october and i stored the LTD for winter almost immediately. The AOD has some strange behaviour when it shifts to OD:
- When pressing the gas pedal constantly, the shifting to OD seems to slide.
-When releasing the gas pedal during shift to OD, AOD shifts normally.
This happens only when the tranny shifts to OD. Lower gears shift normally up and dn.
First thing would be adjusting the TV-cable? Got any other clues?
Another thing to annoy yet is the paintjob. It is a somekind of tradition in Finland, that US-cars that are not in showroom condition - and/or are owned by young people, are painted matt black -
to be more "rock ´n roll", I guess...
Well, I have a long winter ahead and these things are something to do during springtime.
Thx for reading and sorry for lingual mistakes, have learned english 10 yrs, but because don´t use the language daily or even weekly it´s a bit rusty.
Sorry, ain´t got no photos yet, but I will sure post or link ´em when I have a camera. This LTD of mine is made in Canada and exported from Florida to Finland 1989. In 1980´s, Finland had a very strange car tax system. One of it´s curiosities was, that car which had enough trunk space(=STW), could be registered as a van - this lowered the tax which is paid every year. The only bad thing was, that the original back seat had to be removed. You could had a backseat that would look like an original but it had to be removable due to this lower tax.
My LTD is sleeping over the winter - southern Finland has been covered by snow since november. Snow thickness is now 16-28 inches (40-70 cm). Thanks to low temperatures, roads are not salted. My winter car is Lada VAZ 21073 - made in Russia.
Pretty rare in USA, I guess. And actually pretty rare in Finland nowadays too, when all of them are exported back to Russia.I´ve had only driven the LTD from the previous owner´s place to my place yet, 250 mls about, since we made the deal at october and i stored the LTD for winter almost immediately. The AOD has some strange behaviour when it shifts to OD:
- When pressing the gas pedal constantly, the shifting to OD seems to slide.
-When releasing the gas pedal during shift to OD, AOD shifts normally.
This happens only when the tranny shifts to OD. Lower gears shift normally up and dn.
First thing would be adjusting the TV-cable? Got any other clues?
Another thing to annoy yet is the paintjob. It is a somekind of tradition in Finland, that US-cars that are not in showroom condition - and/or are owned by young people, are painted matt black -
to be more "rock ´n roll", I guess...Well, I have a long winter ahead and these things are something to do during springtime.
Thx for reading and sorry for lingual mistakes, have learned english 10 yrs, but because don´t use the language daily or even weekly it´s a bit rusty.
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