My 1987 Mercury Colony Park

[sly]

Here's the pic you're missing out on.

[Kodachrome Wolf]

The image you can't see is on Imageshack. The URL is https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JAtZl9.jpg

The other image, of a yellow Mercury cop car, is also on Imageshack at https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7856/5y5T8P.jpg

Are you maybe browsing from somewhere that is blocking Imageshack?

Strange it would be blocking that image but not the earlier posts unless something that’s been going on with the weird double posts is causing it.

I primarily do all my image hosting with them.

[DerekTheGreat]

The image you can't see is on Imageshack. The URL is https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JAtZl9.jpg

The other image, of a yellow Mercury cop car, is also on Imageshack at https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7856/5y5T8P.jpg

Are you maybe browsing from somewhere that is blocking Imageshack?

Yep, that confirms it, my work browser blocks imageshack. I tried the direct links you provided and got slapped by their splintered ruler.

Here's the pic you're missing out on.
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Groovy! Thanks for attaching that, sly. Those are pretty neat, I've definitely never seen one, nor did I know they existed.

Strange it would be blocking that image but not the earlier posts unless something that’s been going on with the weird double posts is causing it.

I primarily do all my image hosting with them.

Yeah, it is strange that some photos populate, but the majority do not. When I browse your thread or others like your D150 thread to see photos, I'm the odd one out. I finally became the squeaky wheel, thanks fellas for applying some grease.

[Kodachrome Wolf]

Logged some decent mileage lately with the car. Knock on wood, but it's been doing darn near flawless from the driver's seat.

A friend had a few of his friends down for a weekend when we got word a special CSX engine was leading a train, so we all jumped into vehicle with the most seats available and headed towards Martin, SC.




Made it to a rural crossing just outside of Savannah River Site with about a minute or so before it arrived.

[VicCrownVic]

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so we all jumped into vehicle with the most seats available...

Reminds me of when I had my my '88 Country Squire. Friends and I were up all night playing computer games (Half Life, Counter Strike, Warcraft II, Starcraft, probably some others) and decided to go see the new Terminator movie the next day. Every seat in my Country Squire was taken but we only had to take one vehicle.

[Mainemantom]

Pretty cool graphics on that CSX engine.

[Kodachrome Wolf]

Finally got busy on what should be the last radio swap. The common ground analog radio works cherry, but ain't worth nothing for tone, so I got an '87.5+ AM/FM Electronic Stereo from Mainemantom.



Had to order some correct Ford connectors and splice those onto the aftermarket speaker wiring that's been present for some time now. Everything works solidly.


While checking everything, I had the car running and got bored and cycled the turn signal switch and saw a good amount of light cast on the garage wall, and I was thinking, "Wow, this is some great turn signal lamp!", and then realized the headlights were flashing on and off.

Seems something with the high beams were shorting with the left turn signal circuit. Similar symptoms were noted with the hazards. After fiddling with the switch lever for a few minutes, the issue corrected itself. I did go to the parts store and buy a replacement and swapped the switch assembly out anyway as not to chance a repeat issue. New switch feels good and the flash-to-pass activation area is considerably better than the old one, where you were always gonna pull it far enough to click to high beams to make them cycle.

I also saw the ignition switch was separating, so I've temporarily zip tied it together to keep things working. The accessory position gave up a week or two ago, so I had gotten suspicious about it then. So far everything is working again, but there's a NOS switch under the passenger seat, so that'll get swapped tomorrow.

[Mainemantom]

Glad the radio works well for you. Looks good installed.

[Tiggie]

That's certainly an interesting way for the turn signal switch to fail.

[friskyfrankie]

See you also have a tripminder - COOL!

[87gtVIC]

Nice . Yet another oddball radio!

I had to laugh at your video and your commentary. Just a weird one so it made me chuckle at the issue you were having.

[87GrandMarq]

I had the ignition switch seperate on my 87 a few years back. I was going to get a motorcraft unit but ultimately decided to go with a Duralast gold because the price and warranty. So far so good.

[Kodachrome Wolf]

Drove up to Nick's today for his birthday and to help him with a few things on his '89.

Definitely blew the heater core, or at least managed to make it leak properly. I wasn't even driving that hard when my vents started having a sweet-ish fog blown out of them for a good minute and it stopped. Once I got up there I verified there was coolant residue on the passenger side firewall near the floor and the heater ducts smelled of it. We bypassed it for the interim, but will probably get to it next month.

We did get the ignition switch swapped, so at least that's covered.

[gadget73]

thats a really weird failure mode on the switch. Not impossible since the headlamp and turn signal circuits come together but very weird. I'd honestly expect damaged wiring to the switch more than the switch itself to have caused that.

[Kodachrome Wolf]

thats a really weird failure mode on the switch. Not impossible since the headlamp and turn signal circuits come together but very weird. I'd honestly expect damaged wiring to the switch more than the switch itself to have caused that.

The switch showed a fair amount of fine metallic shavings/bits on the forward face where the hi-beam action occurs. The switch was an original Ford unit, so there's a chance it was original to the car with all its miles.

Only place in town that had a replacement switch was Advance, so I wound up with whatever brand switch was in a CarQuest box. Had a lifetime warranty, so that was okay I guess. Engagements feel better than the old switch (occasionally it would make a very loud SNAP when engaging the turn switch). Flash-to-Pass occurs earlier too, as with the old switch I had to actually click the switch entirely to flash the lights.

Didn't have any trouble with the signals yesterday, so I guess that's a good thing.