02-28-2015, 11:58 PM
Well went home over the weekend, and boy oh boy did I get some stuff done. Pics to come soon :thumbup:
Went home Thursday night, and ended up taking off one of the mirrors, which was an interesting process because you had to remove the tweeter and the whole door panel to remove 2 out of the 3 bolts lol. I also touched up a small imperfection in my dash with my handy can of saddle tan paint, looks factory and even my OCD is fine with it.
Friday was the big day. After dropping the mirrors and gas cap (for paint match goodness) got back home to get cracking on the exhaust and suspension. My friend and I fiddled with the exhaust first. Needless to say the environment will thank me for a couple days while I get it inspected :mrgreen: . Then moved on to the suspension. Got down to the springs, and man oh man were the bottom isolators crushed and deformed in the front. After ghetto wrapping the springs in some electrical tape, back in they went with the top isolator left in.. Also put dust boots on the struts while I was in there. At the rear, I removed top and bottom ISOs (both were ruined anyway) and buttoned everything back up. OH LAWD DOES 1/4" MAKE A DIFFERENCE. It looks 10x meaner. Oh and I threw a foglight bulb in and a TPS sensor
.
BUT
as is the nature of the beast without ISOs, the dreaded front suspension squeaks like no other haha. The back is totally fine, and no way in heck am I putting the ISOs back in the rear. The way I see it, when I go back home next weekend, I have 4 options. They are as follows:
1) Grease the hell out of the spring perches and man up and deal with the squeak
2) Try to put the stock ISO back on the bottom (issue with this is I might lose that little bit of rake that makes the stang look mean as hell)
3) Shave both the bottom ISO and sand down the perches to try to get a little extra room to not lose the drop
4) Create my own bottom ISO out of 5/8" heater hose
Any suggestions?
Went home Thursday night, and ended up taking off one of the mirrors, which was an interesting process because you had to remove the tweeter and the whole door panel to remove 2 out of the 3 bolts lol. I also touched up a small imperfection in my dash with my handy can of saddle tan paint, looks factory and even my OCD is fine with it.
Friday was the big day. After dropping the mirrors and gas cap (for paint match goodness) got back home to get cracking on the exhaust and suspension. My friend and I fiddled with the exhaust first. Needless to say the environment will thank me for a couple days while I get it inspected :mrgreen: . Then moved on to the suspension. Got down to the springs, and man oh man were the bottom isolators crushed and deformed in the front. After ghetto wrapping the springs in some electrical tape, back in they went with the top isolator left in.. Also put dust boots on the struts while I was in there. At the rear, I removed top and bottom ISOs (both were ruined anyway) and buttoned everything back up. OH LAWD DOES 1/4" MAKE A DIFFERENCE. It looks 10x meaner. Oh and I threw a foglight bulb in and a TPS sensor
.BUT
as is the nature of the beast without ISOs, the dreaded front suspension squeaks like no other haha. The back is totally fine, and no way in heck am I putting the ISOs back in the rear. The way I see it, when I go back home next weekend, I have 4 options. They are as follows:
1) Grease the hell out of the spring perches and man up and deal with the squeak
2) Try to put the stock ISO back on the bottom (issue with this is I might lose that little bit of rake that makes the stang look mean as hell)
3) Shave both the bottom ISO and sand down the perches to try to get a little extra room to not lose the drop
4) Create my own bottom ISO out of 5/8" heater hose
Any suggestions?
1995 Mustang Cobra- 1 of 717 Rio Red