Not sure about how best to install the seat anchors in the floor, or a spare tire mount on the rear

I've owned two 3.0 Aerostar since 1986 and recently bought a third, and those 3.0 engines have been nothing but reliable and they have enough power to beat your typical Honda and BMW at the red light. You don't need a larger radiator for the 3.0, you need a clean unclogged radiator travel cuts canada with the right mix of coolant.
But if you insist, J.C.Whitney travel cuts canada sells aftermarket Cruise Control kits. The door weatherstripping and power mirrors too. You can do a custom spare tire door mount by pulling one from a salvage yard vehicle. You can pull a front passenger seat from another Aerostar or even a Windstar and bolt it straight to the rear floor with giant bolts and reinforcing plates.
my point is: nothing you can do that can't be done or hasn't been done. Search Craigslist and salvage yards for the parts you need. But I insist, you can get an Aerostar with factory Cruise and Power Mirrors, working a/c and less problems for less money.
Mikey, do you know where Pick-A-Part is in Monrovia? It is a self-serve auto dismantling yard where I've found a lot of stuff for my cars. They usually have a few Aerostars in there, and you might find a lot of parts you're looking for that are still serviceable. They are located on Peck road south of Live Oak.
I'm sure you can get all the cruise control parts you need to install/replace in your van. The CC stock controls are in the steering wheel, so you would need that, maybe run a different wiring harness up the steering column, travel cuts canada and maybe replace the clockspring in the process to get rid of the airbag light. Just give the airbag some time to discharge before trying to take it apart, disconnect travel cuts canada power, ground everything, and it should not blow up in your face.
The battery charge light is probably due to a faulty wire, and that will be difficult to trace. Best to look through an electrical diagram to start. If you have the Ford manuals, they will have the most thorough information. Otherwise, check Chilton's or Hayne's manuals.
Changing the heater core will require dropping the lower half of the dash; the knee-panel part. It's not impossible, but will be difficult due to poor access. Be aware that a lot of cheap aftermarket heater travel cuts canada cores are not an exact fit, and will render the heater less effective. Also, it is all but impossible to remove the hose couplings to the heater travel cuts canada core without destroying them, which the previous owner probably did. So you will have to replace that section with some extensions using standard hoses.
Unfortunately, bumper covers are usually travel cuts canada the first to go, both in terms of being destroyed before they get to the yard, and as the first parts to be stripped if they were intact. I got lucky when I spotted a good set on a van sitting in one of the neighboring yards at Pick-A-Part. So if you go to visit P-A-P and can't find what you're looking for, go past their parking lot to one of the others and ask if they have anything. The other place with high density of salvage yards is the Tujunga/Sunland areas.
I think a lot of people travel cuts canada here have found that the Explorer 15 rims will fit, and if you install tires like 215/65/15, the diameter of the tire is similar enough to stock that you should not affect the speedometer readings.
Not sure about how best to install the seat anchors in the floor, or a spare tire mount on the rear door. You might be able to yank out a set of seat anchors (and seats) from a salvage van and install them into yours. Take pictures of the van that you take them out of, above and below the floor, to see how they're installed so you can try to do the same to your van.
I don't recall ever seeing a door mounted spare on an Aerostar; travel cuts canada they're all under the rear floor. My feeling is you will need some kind of reinforcement on the door skin and frame in order to hold up a spare tire mount.
xlt4wd90, the reason I suggested a J.C. Whitney Cruise travel cuts canada Control kit is because he said he does not want to change the steering wheel. but even if he did replace the steering wheel, the rest of the parts will be a nightmare to put together as it would have come from the factory.
I also have nicer front and rear bumpers (the flexible rubber non-cracking/non-plastic version of the Aerostar bumper covers), but I don't know if the rear fits the Cargo Aerostar, it is for the regular 7-passenger wagon with hatch. However, shipping bumpers would be very costly, and those bumpers are not cheap either.
in Florida there are many Cargo Aerostar being sold between $1,000. and $2,500. Most of them have high-miles in the 200k range. But I've yet to see one without factory Cruise travel cuts canada Control, very strange that a California vehicle would not have CC.
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