Ok my 3.0L Taurus GL has finally been relieved of it's commute duty and is ready to be worked on. Here is a list of the problems that it has.
-Transmission will somtimes not go into 1st gear unless I manually put it in 1st gear and then it's stuck until I put it into N and then let it sit a while then put it back into D. On occasion it will slam into 1st gear pretty hard also. After that it shifts ok.
-I am assuming the Oil Pump is gone since all of the sudden the oil light came on and I could hear the valves at that point also.
-Lean Condition on Bank #1. This only occurs when I am keeping my speed on a flat road. This only occured after I changed the head gaskets. (compression is good now) (I assume I missed/tore some vaccum line)
-A/C clutch fell off
-Power Steering Pump whines LOUDLY
-And of course brakes and Tires
Now I have a few questions. I had heard I might be able to get a good transmission from the junk yard. Anyone done that and had success/failure? Don't want to pay the 2K required for the trans rebuild. Any Ideas/Experience on the other stuff? And the main question do you think it's worth Fixing?
-Transmission will somtimes not go into 1st gear unless I manually put it in 1st gear and then it's stuck until I put it into N and then let it sit a while then put it back into D. On occasion it will slam into 1st gear pretty hard also. After that it shifts ok.
-I am assuming the Oil Pump is gone since all of the sudden the oil light came on and I could hear the valves at that point also.
-Lean Condition on Bank #1. This only occurs when I am keeping my speed on a flat road. This only occured after I changed the head gaskets. (compression is good now) (I assume I missed/tore some vaccum line)
-A/C clutch fell off
-Power Steering Pump whines LOUDLY
-And of course brakes and Tires
Now I have a few questions. I had heard I might be able to get a good transmission from the junk yard. Anyone done that and had success/failure? Don't want to pay the 2K required for the trans rebuild. Any Ideas/Experience on the other stuff? And the main question do you think it's worth Fixing?