2002 Windstar 3.8 Engine

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Haggar - 15 Jul 2006 02:48 GMT

I had a 1996 which had a 3.8 motor and had some problems with engine. Is the
2002 model a better motor? Any other known issues??

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Bret Ludwig - 15 Jul 2006 11:38 GMT

> I had a 1996 which had a 3.8 motor and had some problems with engine. Is the
> 2002 model a better motor? Any other known issues??

At onr time a lot of people were putting 3.8 Ford engines in
airplanes. Couldn't be too unreliable. But in general this is
considered a dog engine by Fordisti.

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David F. Mishiwiec Sr. - 15 Jul 2006 17:08 GMT

Really! My '98 Windstar, which I had for 7 years and 95k, had a 3.8L and
it ran like a beast! That vehicle was sold with 125k on it and that
motor ran as strong then as it did the day I bought the vehicle. Go figure!

I used nothing but Mobil 1 in it and the only work that motor ever
needed, outside of regular maintenance, was replacing the intake
manifold runner controls at about 110k miles. Otherwise I never had a
second's worth of trouble with it.

Now the tranny was another story.........

>> I had a 1996 which had a 3.8 motor and had some problems with engine. Is the
>> 2002 model a better motor? Any other known issues??
>
> At onr time a lot of people were putting 3.8 Ford engines in
> airplanes. Couldn't be too unreliable. But in general this is
> considered a dog engine by Fordisti.

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monkeyboy - 20 Jul 2006 07:14 GMT

>I had a 1996 which had a 3.8 motor and had some problems with engine. Is the
>2002 model a better motor? Any other known issues??

Yes and there's too many to list. Not so much the physical motor as the
electronics that Ford use on the Windstar Gineapig. I swear ever new fangled
electronic ge gaw and testing complete redesigned bonehead systems like.
Lets not have a chassis ground on this one. will ground side all the switchs
and lights and and that way there will be power to everything all the time.
Try hooking up a simple little wheelchair carrier and finding a way to turn
on the relocated license plate lamp. yup you need a module that only plugs
into one with trailer tow package but they don't include the module. and if
you don't have trailer tow your
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkdddddddddddddddddd. I'm ok
now.

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