WTB: 4wd Protege

[Jho]

That's interesting, I've never heard of a rust problem around the windshield on a first gen.

[Rivet]

Maybe the rust around the windshield is a problem that is jsut starting to show-up now the these cars are reaching an advanced age. The car I am buying (I don't have the car yet) is supposed to have the worst rust around the windshield. My guess is that I'll find a broken antenana base or gasket and that is the root cause.

[Jho]

My guess is that I'll find a broken antenana base or gasket and that is the root cause.

That's a good guess.

My old car had a messed up windshield gasket.

I'm betting that's going to cause problems down the road.

[Rivet]

I finally got the car here! This has taken forever; really in this day and age buying a car should not be this hard! However, I still have not paid for it Here the deal; we planned to pay for the car by Paypal. Seemed like a quick and easy way to transfer the money, right? Wrong; my bank decides to deny the payment. They think that all paypal transactions are fraud. Plan B: we send a cashier's check overnight. Post office never delivers it; it is going to be another week before they can tell us what they did with it. To top it all off we had some minor problems with the transport company, nothing serious but a pain in the butt.

[Pox]

Looks pretty clean.


How come they all come with only 3 hubcaps. Mine was missing the front passengers. =\

[Rivet]

I did get all 4 hubcaps, one is in the back seat. Here are some more pics. I was kind of disappointed in the rockers; three conrners where crushed and one is rusty. Did it really take three tries to figure out that you can't jack the car from there. But over all I'm happy with the car. I don't recommend buying a car sight unseen, but I couldn't go wrong for the money.

[Rivet]

It didn't take long to diagnosis this one . . .
The paper work I got with the car says the the clucth was changed about 3 years back; I wonder if the forgot to fill the transfer case. Not sure what I am going to do about it yet. My plan was for a BPT and trans, and I stilll intend to do that, but now I'm thinking I might just change out the transfer case (if I can find one). The big question is how deep does the damage go, the trans may be a total loss anyways. The SOHC runs great, you never would guess it has over 250K on it, no lifter noise, nothing.

[92_escort_gt]

looks pretty good. i'm going to be picking up a 4wd within a week. soon to be to 4wd's in 1 state!! were going to have to meet up

[Rivet]

The Jefferson swap meet is in a few weeks . . .I'm about 4 miles from the fair grounds. We uaually have a Bon Fire on Saturday night after the swap meet. However, my tapper has gone dry and I haven't picked up a new keg yet. We might have to settle for bottled beer.

[jasoncsprotege]

All I have to say is that your sight unseen was better then my sight unseen, Not nearly as much rust as was what mine had. Have fun with it and I would say change the tranny.
Jason

[Jho]

Sounds like a hassle! Hopefully it was worth it.

We've got the same lifts at my work.

[hit25cal]

I was kind of disappointed in the rockers; three conrners where crushed and one is rusty. Did it really take three tries to figure out that you can't jack the car from there.

I know what caused this... It wasn't a floor jack that did this... I have seen this first hand before, an idiot in my old shop class did this to his car

By thinking he knew how to properly support his car, and like the idiot he is, his car FELL OFF OF THE LIFT, from about 4 feet in the air, it blew out one tire and bent the rim, and left dents and scrapes almost EXACTLY like these on three corners of the rockers

two questions, is that fourth hubcap broken?
and did the wheel it goes on... does it have a flat spot on the rim, even a small one?

[smoke187]

ok makes me want a awd even more

[Turpro]

That's a good find. The damage doesn't look too bad. Can't wait to see what the future holds for it.

[Rivet]

I'm fairly sure that the damage is from a jack and not a lift. They seem fairly recent and I know they where trying to fix the thing in the driveway before they gave up. But who knows, made it did fall of a lift a some point. After I get it running again, I'll take it over to the local autobady and see what it will take to replace the rockers. The drivers Post/windshield frame will need some work also, I don't think whole thing will need to come out, but it is definatly going to need some reconstructive surgery