Do any of you ever get discouraged about the PIA things you have to do to keep up the 'ole wagon? Maybe it's the winter blues (our winters last about 5 weeks here). It seems things just add up. Little things like valve stem seals leaking so you smoke out the mosquito's during the first start up of the day (actually we don't have those here but thought everyone else would understand, we don't have tics either). Just as soon as I've procrastinated enough the power steering starts to drip...just a bit but dripping nonetheless. Then you spend all winter scouring the salvage yards for a piece of trim only to find out that all the trim for 1982 Mercurys were manufactured from unobtainium. This and the fact that I still haven't got around to pulling out the whole stinking dash board to fix the heater and air cond!!!:banghead3: But after lunch I went home and got the 'ole wagon and used it to come back to work and it's running so nice and the weather today is 67 and beautiful sinshine. Great day for a ride in the wagon and I guess I can put of the repairs for another day.
Yes, I know what you mean. My heat won't turn off. Ever time you start moving heats comes out the vents even though the fan is off. My transmission has been leaking but I finally got that stopped. Now the rear door is leaking. Problems just don't stop but I love the car. After a long day of fustration I just take it out and push it to the floor. When that 4 barrel opens up I am perfectly happy.
You know something else fun to do with you wagon is doing an olds fashioned donut. That probably makes more problems but its worth 4,000 pounds sliding through the ice.
OK, I'm sure you don't know this but a 1982 Cougar Wagon with a 200 ci engine is not capable of donuts. Not possible. Never going to happen. 0-60 time is around 20 seconds or so. But, donuts are fun in a sandy parking lot (we don't have ice) where 88 hp is enough. I have driven the car at 70 mph. Speedo goes to 80.
Ya, I'm sure it won't. I used to know a guy who had Fords version of your Cougar and it wouldn't even move in snow. I'm sure it probably had the same engine being another Ford product. Looks nice! I'm in Ohio and we have lots of snow. You get sick of it. How many miles do you got on your Cougar?
discouraged????good Lord i have more things to do on my three wagons than carter has pills,,,,the cutlass is partially dis assembled for paint,,,the big oldsmoboat i need tabs and emissions done and my poor maliboo gets flogged daily to work and such,, i figure by the time i retire in twenty or so i should be done,,,,with at least one of them:banana: :banana: and have two more to go
Just around 119,324. Good strong compression still. Just that 88hp trying to move 3200 lbs. But it goes great once you get up to 30 or so when the 145 ft lb of torque kicks in.
