St170Auckland Posted September 27, 2024 Posted September 27, 2024 Bit late to the party but was just reading through this and saw what happened to your car. I have an st170 which has done 250,000km and never misses a beat, truly a great engine and a great handling car. Unfortunately the car is at the age where everything that is rubber or plastic starts to go, currently doing a new RH engine mount which had to be shipped from the UK. Also thermostat housing has decided to crack so have a new one of those on the way having just replaced the o-ring in it a few months ago (was leaking). Other problems I’ve had in the last 4 years of owning it includes blower motor, window actuator, passenger door mechanism and my personal favorite of the gear linkage breaking on the motorway. Luckily It broke in between gears so I was able to roll along in neutral to about half way along the off ramp before having to push it and then towed home by my dad. If anyone knows how to stop the rocket cover gasket leaking, please leave tips. Quote
d.p.n.s Posted September 27, 2024 Author Posted September 27, 2024 4 hours ago, St170Auckland said: Bit late to the party but was just reading through this and saw what happened to your car. I have an st170 which has done 250,000km and never misses a beat, truly a great engine and a great handling car. Unfortunately the car is at the age where everything that is rubber or plastic starts to go, currently doing a new RH engine mount which had to be shipped from the UK. Also thermostat housing has decided to crack so have a new one of those on the way having just replaced the o-ring in it a few months ago (was leaking). Other problems I’ve had in the last 4 years of owning it includes blower motor, window actuator, passenger door mechanism and my personal favorite of the gear linkage breaking on the motorway. Luckily It broke in between gears so I was able to roll along in neutral to about half way along the off ramp before having to push it and then towed home by my dad. If anyone knows how to stop the rocket cover gasket leaking, please leave tips. The rocket cover leak is common . New gasket , torqued to spec in spec sequence... mine didn't leak after that 1 Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 10 Posted March 10 Have had my ST170 only 108k miles now been off the road for months due to problems after a mechanic did the timing belt, Got told it was the vct pulley broken so got one, they installed it retimed engine still running like shit surging all the time with a bad idle, Have done fuel pump/filter, checked injectors/maf/IAC/PCV/TPS/Crank angle sensor, IMRC as well cant seem to find the problem These fords are a bloody pain have engine code P1132 and the mechanic can't even figure out what's wrong with it, Engine has good compression still so have no clue what's wrong with the old girl. Checked everything There is to P1132 code and P1130 as well but cant find the problem. Has anyone had a similar issue this car has been a bloody pain 1 1 Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 10 Posted March 10 On 20/08/2024 at 23:44, NOTAHO said: Damn wish I saw this earlier, trying to find a engine You still looking for one got one in Auckland 90k miles on it? Quote
d.p.n.s Posted March 10 Author Posted March 10 21 hours ago, Ben1231 said: Have had my ST170 only 108k miles now been off the road for months due to problems after a mechanic did the timing belt, Got told it was the vct pulley broken so got one, they installed it retimed engine still running like shit surging all the time with a bad idle, Have done fuel pump/filter, checked injectors/maf/IAC/PCV/TPS/Crank angle sensor, IMRC as well cant seem to find the problem These fords are a bloody pain have engine code P1132 and the mechanic can't even figure out what's wrong with it, Engine has good compression still so have no clue what's wrong with the old girl. Checked everything There is to P1132 code and P1130 as well but cant find the problem. Has anyone had a similar issue this car has been a bloody pain Thats all the normal shit to check. The timing could still be slightly out.. even spark plugs man... mine ran like shit .put a new set in ..ran better ... gapped them perfectly to spec....fixed it. Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 8 hours ago, d.p.n.s said: Thats all the normal shit to check. The timing could still be slightly out.. even spark plugs man... mine ran like shit .put a new set in ..ran better ... gapped them perfectly to spec....fixed it. Its my first car, hence bought it to learn manual and sure it has taught me a lot lol, I've killed the whole clutch system in it at once LOL including every part poor girl gets treated better now though, but she loves that 7200rpm in 2nd gear with the screaming engine at 110kmh ish lol, couldn't of bought a better first car 1 Quote
d.p.n.s Posted March 11 Author Posted March 11 3 hours ago, Ben1231 said: Its my first car, hence bought it to learn manual and sure it has taught me a lot lol, I've killed the whole clutch system in it at once LOL including every part poor girl gets treated better now though, but she loves that 7200rpm in 2nd gear with the screaming engine at 110kmh ish lol, couldn't of bought a better first car Great cars....just have some issues. There's a bunch of vaccume lines on these ..pays to check them all.as they get brittle and crack. The other main issue is the inlet runner control.... I looked at making someone replace this at one point.. but never did it. ... my plan was to sell the st170 motor and buy a stadrd 2.0 zetec and turbo it... Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 11 hours ago, d.p.n.s said: Great cars....just have some issues. There's a bunch of vaccume lines on these ..pays to check them all.as they get brittle and crack. The other main issue is the inlet runner control.... I looked at making someone replace this at one point.. but never did it. ... my plan was to sell the st170 motor and buy a stadrd 2.0 zetec and turbo it... Yep found that about the vacuum lines quickly bloody touched one and it snapped The IMRC can be bought brand new for around 1k landed to nz so not that bad, i have checked mine and its mint no problems with it. When i bought mine last year in July it had pretty much been sitting since 2016 only done around 10000kms ish over the 10 year period, Old girl needs every bushing/linkage replaced its really squeaky over bumps lol pretty much has metal bushings atm Quote
d.p.n.s Posted March 11 Author Posted March 11 Yeah mine was 210000 when ut git written off.. was bloody great to drive. But I know there can be issues.with so much of the stuff on the motor.. Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 15 Posted March 15 On 12/03/2025 at 11:39, d.p.n.s said: Yeah mine was 210000 when ut git written off.. was bloody great to drive. But I know there can be issues.with so much of the stuff on the motor.. Yep dam right Ive got a engine from one what do you think its worth only got like 145000 on it when pulled out 1 Quote
d.p.n.s Posted March 15 Author Posted March 15 6 hours ago, Ben1231 said: Yep dam right Ive got a engine from one what do you think its worth only got like 145000 on it when pulled out They can fetch good money... but no one has any at the moment. Ive seen them sell for $4 grand. I bought my car back for $500 .and got paid out insurance..so I bought it back so others could get the parts.. I advertised the motor for $1800 and it sold in less than a minute 😆 1 Quote
Ben1231 Posted March 16 Posted March 16 20 hours ago, d.p.n.s said: They can fetch good money... but no one has any at the moment. Ive seen them sell for $4 grand. I bought my car back for $500 .and got paid out insurance..so I bought it back so others could get the parts.. I advertised the motor for $1800 and it sold in less than a minute 😆 I've got one in Auckland Just finding someone that wants it is hard everyone wants to pay less then 500 bucks which not really keen on that Quote
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