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    Removing a stuck rear wheel?

    Nope, I'm not a musician :) I did put some leg power into it, though. However, I didn't have enough room in my garage to lay down perpendicular to the car (I'm 6'3"). I eventually did most of the work with my 16oz rubber mallet. I found that hitting it many times in one spot on the tire...
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    Removing a stuck rear wheel?

    I was suspecting rust as the culprit, being as we actually had winter here in upstate new york this year (as opposed to last winter, which was a grand total of maybe 16 inches of snow). Damn salt trucks get the better of me every time...
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    Removing a stuck rear wheel?

    When I originally posted this, I had only the rear driver's side wheel off the ground. I suspect that the differential didn't like that a whole lot, and was the reason why it was so hard to turn the wheel by hand. I then placed a jackstand under the axle, and lifted the other rear wheel...
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    Removing a stuck rear wheel?

    I was changing my tires today - finally taking off the snow tires - and I can't get my rear driver's side wheel off! Yes, all five lugs are off. I've raised and lowered the car a few times now, and I released the parking brake and have the tranny in neutral. I can turn the wheel by hand...
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    Bad wheel bearing on 95gt?

    I did the hub replacement last weekend, and now the noise is gone. However, I have a new question on a snap decision I made while getting the old hub out. The set of nuts that held the old hub to the spindle (I think there were three of them together plus one even further in) were together...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    In the unlikely event that anyone is watching this thread, it appears that my electrical problems were all rooted in the battery cables in my car. Not sure why such obscenely cheap and flimsy cables were used in this car when I bought it (were the OEM ones cheap and lousy?) but when I cut the...
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    An unusual battery...

    Bingo. I'm glad at least one other person thought it was funny. Maybe I just have a distorted sense of humor after the past week. But the thought of using either a pontiac fiero or a haynes manual for a pontiac fiero to start a V8 stang... :D
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    An unusual battery...

    Maybe there's something browser-specific that causes it to not render correctly. If you are seeing what I am seeing, you should see something that is very much not battery-like. Or at least something that would not work well as a battery within the confines of our engine bays. :nice:
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    An unusual battery...

    Apologies if this is in the wrong area, I found this battery when searching for a new one for my 95 gt. I thought I new what a battery should look like, until I saw the image on this page...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    Here's an interesting follow-up problem that I suspect is related. My wife and I just returned from visiting friends & family over the holiday week. Our cars were parked at home the entire time while we were gone (we flew). When I returned, my battery was dead. Absolutely, 100% dead. No...
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    Bad wheel bearing on 95gt?

    Thanks for the advice, I'll take a look at the lugs as well when I get the wheel off!
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    Bad wheel bearing on 95gt?

    My 95 gt has started making rattling / clicking noises while driving at certain speeds. I suspect it is the front pasenger wheel bearing but I'm not 100% sure. The noise changes with the speed of the car - it is at its worst right around 45mph (really convenient since thats the speed limit...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    Thanks for the pic! Looks like I'll be pulling out the ol' Haynes manual when I get home to start tearing all that apart. I haven't pulled the stereo out of this car before - based on your picture it looks like the center console and the center bezel both need to come out. Is that correct...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    Searching around google for information got me this response: [url]http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061205073521AAbjPCx[url] This person claims it to be behind the stereo itself, so it would seem that I will have to pull the deck out in order to get to the amp. Does that sound...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    Hey man I didn't mean to imply that I don't believe you. I just didn't expect a factory amp. But then again my last car before this one was a 78 mustang II, which had a factory 8track, and two 5.25" speakers in the doors. I understand sound systems are a little more complicated now... :)
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    Well, thats news to me. I didn't think that a basic sound system would have a factory amp. You say its behind the dash - which side of the car is it on? I was just crawling under the driver's side checking fuses, so I suspect you mean its over on the passenger side. How big is it? Could you...
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    Electrical (sound) troubleshooting

    The stereo on my 95GT just stopped making sound this week. The unit itself seems to work fine, but no sound comes out. I suspected maybe a blown fuse caused by a short, but I just checked all my fuses and they're all fine. No sound is coming out anywhere at any volume. The deck itself is...
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    Where the hell are the grease fittings?

    dah! I finally found that second drain plug, the one that is almost completely vertical, almost halfway between the front and rear of the bottom-most part of the oil pan! I guess that means that I've been doing half oil changes all this time. And I always just figured that the difference between...
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    Where the hell are the grease fittings?

    Thanks! One other question, that probably ought to go into a new thread but I'll drop it here anyways. Has anyone ever seen an aftermarket oil pan for a 5.0? Or one that has a different depth and/or capacity than the standard for the 1995? I ask this because the dipstick in my 1995 records...
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    Where the hell are the grease fittings?

    Ok, thats what I was hoping to hear. In the absence of greasing anything, is there anything else that I should have been doing maintenance-wise while doing the oil change? FWIW, my previous mustang was a 1978, which had more than a couple of fittings, IIRC. So I was a little confused when I...
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