I've Mended Something!

"Denver Is Stuck In The 90s" (denver80222) 01/06/2015 at 16:23 • Filed to: None

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I went to the junkyard and they didn't have any manual rangers or explorers. But on a whim I grabbed a brake fluid reservoir cap from a Mercury mystique. And guess what, it fits! Costed only five bucks to get in and out along with the cost of the part. Why would anyone ever consider paying a dealer $94 for one?

After:

Before:

This cap Is also much better quality, I don't think it will warp like the other one did. On the way over to the junkyard I spotted a unicorn:

Notice the XFE badge?

CalzoneGolem > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:25

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Amend!

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > CalzoneGolem 01/06/2015 at 16:26

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I'm still at the junkyard about to head home and I'm using voice to text on my phone, it doesn't work a hundred percent well

CalzoneGolem > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:29

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Meh typos happen. Just giving you crap about it while trying to be funny.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:31

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Now I feel guilty for not mentioning this was a possibility earlier. I have a Ford brake reservoir cap on my Land-Rover's reservoir, because apparently old Fords use size guidelines that are generic as fuck. Also, for the 60s it's pretty much the same BMC (different size than mine, oddly) in Ford trucks, Mustangs, Falcons, and others, along with common steering column parts, gauges, switches, and common others. Take also the ability to swap spindles and other stray parts around, and the underpinnings of the Fox platform going into *everything* later on. The '90 Econoline we have has all kinds of ordinary truck parts repurposed as well. Perhaps not so much these days, but Ford back in the day were fuckin' MANIC with parts-binning.

lone_liberal > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:35

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Shhhhh. If you start spreading the word then everybody will start going to the U-Pick yards and there won't be anything left for us!

Sanettika > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:48

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I love when car companies do crap like this and then don't tell anyone. I knew this was a sort of thing Honda did back when they had sane people working there, and now I find out Ford was doing the same thing. Has anyone ever gone through and cataloged which parts/manufacturers are interchangeable? That would probably a monumental task, but I'm sure there's someone out there with a few years to spend on such a thing.

Takuro Spirit > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 16:52

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I had to get a cap for the old CX-9 we had, Mazda wanted to sell me a whole master cylinder. No lie. I had to use my Parts-Fu to find a bulletin that gave a part number for JUST the cap.

Why they don't put shit like that in the catalogs I'll never know.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/06/2015 at 17:31

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Nice thinking! Glad you found a better solution.

crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/06/2015 at 17:48

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I missed this.

My Motive power bleeder will do both brake and clutch systems, and the adapter is the same for a bunch of modern cars.