Hi: I own a 1996 Ford Windstar GL\u00a0 3.oL engine and want(need) to replace the Output Shaft sensor (OSS),\u00a0also called Vehicle Speed sensor (VSS) with “mechanical Speedometer cluster” located behind the Transaxle on the passenger side of the vehicle. I have heard some horror stories??<\/p>\n
Has anyone done this repair?<\/p>\n
What is the easiest way to\u00a0replace sensor using back yard tools with no hoist or air tools. THanks alot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi: I own a 1996 Ford Windstar GL\u00a0 3.oL engine and want(need) to replace the Output Shaft sensor (OSS),\u00a0also called Vehicle Speed sensor (VSS) with “mechanical Speedometer cluster” located behind the Transaxle on the passenger side of the vehicle. I have heard some horror stories?? Has anyone done this repair? What is the easiest way… Read More »Ford Windstar Output Shaft Sensor (OSS\/VSS) replacement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[375,7537],"class_list":["post-14994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-ford","tag-vss-vehicle-speed-sensor","tag-windstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}