So my little brother got his first car. Its a 2001 Ford Explorer Sport with 143,000 miles on it. Inside and out is pretty nice. I don't think maintenance wise it was very taken care of.
So far we did:
Oil Change: Harvest King (Rural King) 5W-30 with a Motorcraft FL-820S Filter
- Oil was disgustingly black and dirty and the filter wasn't the right spec and was half the size of the new one we replaced it with. Also put a new oil drain plug on as well
Air Filter: STP SA8243
- Very black, could tell it hadn't been changed in awhile
Coolant: Flush with Prestone Coolant flush. Drain and filled about 8 gallons of distilled water out of it all together. Lots of rust and the fluid was a blackish dark brown at first. Refilled with Peak Coolant. Green colored one.
I picked up Valvoline Transfer case fluid to put in the transfer case, it meets the Ford specs. Haven't got to do it yet. I've been spraying the bolts with Liquid wrench penetrating spray for the transfer case, rear differential, and transmission pan bolts. They are really rusted and I figured that would help out when we got around to changing them.
We need to put front stabilizing links on and it needs 1 stud needs replaced. And also needs some new tires, especially for winter. Doing that this coming week.
Now to my main questions, will these work?:
Transmission: Valvoline MaxLife Dex/Merc ATF
Rear (open) and Front Diff: Valvoline 80W-90
Does anyone know the part number for the Motorcraft transmission filter?
Any certain procedure besides a pan drop and filter change for the transmission?
Any recommendations on a certain type of brake fluid that would be good?
I think those are all that I have at the moment. Any other things that I should look at to help him change?
So far we did:
Oil Change: Harvest King (Rural King) 5W-30 with a Motorcraft FL-820S Filter
- Oil was disgustingly black and dirty and the filter wasn't the right spec and was half the size of the new one we replaced it with. Also put a new oil drain plug on as well
Air Filter: STP SA8243
- Very black, could tell it hadn't been changed in awhile
Coolant: Flush with Prestone Coolant flush. Drain and filled about 8 gallons of distilled water out of it all together. Lots of rust and the fluid was a blackish dark brown at first. Refilled with Peak Coolant. Green colored one.
I picked up Valvoline Transfer case fluid to put in the transfer case, it meets the Ford specs. Haven't got to do it yet. I've been spraying the bolts with Liquid wrench penetrating spray for the transfer case, rear differential, and transmission pan bolts. They are really rusted and I figured that would help out when we got around to changing them.
We need to put front stabilizing links on and it needs 1 stud needs replaced. And also needs some new tires, especially for winter. Doing that this coming week.
Now to my main questions, will these work?:
Transmission: Valvoline MaxLife Dex/Merc ATF
Rear (open) and Front Diff: Valvoline 80W-90
Does anyone know the part number for the Motorcraft transmission filter?
Any certain procedure besides a pan drop and filter change for the transmission?
Any recommendations on a certain type of brake fluid that would be good?
I think those are all that I have at the moment. Any other things that I should look at to help him change?