Found out what some of the rear end noise was....who has a plasma cutter?!

So the previous owner of the car decided to weld in D rings on the rear axle to tie the car down to the trailer. Well needless to say it wasn't very thoughtful of a placement and it is hitting my exhaust. So who has a plasma cutter and wants to help cut this puppy off?

Thats a lot of work just to strap a car down lol.

Ya no joke freaking retarded. So I decided to cut it off with a gas axe, in an attempt to take the Koni off I noticed that with the D-ring in place I could not get the lower bolt out of the shock...FML. So after setting up a piece of steel as a heat shield we heated the D-ring up and used a crescent wrench to bend it out of the way. Got the bolt out, dropped the shock preceded to axe off the D-ring.




So now the suspension can move all through its range and not hit anything..Oh also noticed one of my rear brake lines was rubbing on a bolt and almost all the way through the line Got it bent out of the way...time for Stainless steel lines in the rear!

And wOOT ALL my rear end noise went away!

wow... wonder if the previous owner knew there were 10 other ways to strap a car down. apparently not.

Haha eh whatever. Problem fixed now. The rear end feels so much better just time to work on replacing joints on the front control arms.

Also now my clutch has a shutter to it.. Didn't shutter at all until now at about 2,000 miles in. It is a Ram clutch with Spec aluminum flywheel.

Get er dunnnnnnnnn.

Wow, some people are full of not so good ideas.....

Good idea just poor execution.

Ahhhhh... The Joy / pain of buying other peoples experiments. Good work!

Haha the car has been a joy mostly. Just working the last couple little bugs out of it then time for HALLET!!!!

WOO

yamanx wrote:Haha the car has been a joy mostly. Just working the last couple little bugs out of it then time for HALLET!!!!

don't you mean, time to put it away for winter...

Hell no! I'm super curious how this thing handles in shitty weather. All my other Mustang were trash and the rear end would come around so quickly and this one so far just squats and goes.

put a snow plow on it and make some money...

Ya right my car is way too low haha. I ran over a match box yesterday...bottomed out.

I bottomed out on a penny... and on Leonard's lift...