Black Jack: Fixing torque steer

Where have you been all of my foxbody life? Tried these in Black Jack. Love them! Now, I'm buying pairs for the other foxes, my daily Saturn, & my F250.

Taking pics of lights never works out all that well, but believe me, this is something I've always wanted out of stock housings. These are factory bulb replacements for $70/pair.


Carrying on, New fuel filler neck stopped the overwhelming gas smell in the car after filling up on fuel:



That last pic shows the filler neck seal, but it also shows the worst rust on the car, which is on the lower right quarter. I will have this addressed by a body-man. Fortunately, the adjacent panels are perfectly clean. Honestly, looking at this picture made it finally click... I think we've found the culprit. The rear tire was kicking water up into the cabin here at the filler neck for who knows how many years. It drained into the lower quarter panel, add to that cocktail a couple decades, and boom! A rusty lower panel.

@7991LXnSHO I did as you said, and looked around a bit. The weather stripping is new-ish and seals fine. The new driver's light is nice and sealed. I plugged up the holes in the spare tire well. I do see a little rust around the hatch latch, but that'll have to wait for a new spoiler. I hate the whale tail, so when that goes, I'll take a look to see if there's any way water's coming in through the hatch. So in the next two pics, you can see the plugs, followed by a peak through the passenger tail light assembly's lack of seal:




Finally, I made 1 good cluster out of 2 bad ones. I mean, one panel was bad, one speedo gauge was bad - it was way off & over about 50-60 mph, it read about 80 and then jumped from 80 suddenly to ~120 mph. Now, I've adjusted it so that even though the 23-tooth driven gear is off by about 12%, I've offset the speedo needle down significantly so that it's accurate at 70mph. This has the effect of reading low by 5-6 mph at the bottom of the gauge, but only being off by 1-2 mph at Hwy speeds.

The other's RPM gauge was bad. It would stick at 3k RPM, and then would go up from there. The new RPM gauge is still probably pretty badly off., but at least it's giving me a consistent sense of where they car's at as I drive around. The Volt-meter & temp gauges both read way out of the norm that I typically see foxes in, but my spare cluster's is right on the money, further convincing me that the cooling issues is solved. The only thing that was good in both was the right two gauges (fuel & oil pressure). So, here's the disassembled 'parts cluster' and then the car with the new mats & reassembled cluster. Future sale note: here's the moment the car jumped from ~1,397 on the odometer to ~43,598. I'm not out to screw anyone, and frankly I'm not sure I've done anything but make it look like it has extra miles on it, lol. I just need a speedometer that works decently, and I already had this one stored. With the new one, the needle has started 'vibrating' within a 5mph range around the speed it thinks I'm going. I hope the speedo cable I've ordered clears this up, but honestly not sure if it will. The last speedo was terrible, but it seems smoother until it got high enough to freak out.





New cluster, door panels back in, for the moment. Running pony floor mats. Kick panel out, waiting for either replacement or repaint.

That's the end for today. Nice progress on this car in 1.5 weeks! It's coming right along, and I'm loving it more every day!

Just little stuff, tonight, like killmat + a door lock actuator on the passenger side:



A new striker, well-adjusted + some paint for the hatch:


A cleaned up & lithium greased latch + some CLD tiles on the upper portion of the hatch. The latch seems to be working better:

Both doors are done, now, on both the inner and outer panels. The door lock actuator is in on the Driver's side. Strange how it still has trouble locking and unlocking, despite about a 5 gal. bucket worth of WD40 on the lock.

Doors shut with a satisfying thud that makes it seem like a much higher class car, lol. I'll spare the pics, for now. When I get the other door panel from TMI in on the passenger side, I'll snap a couple more. The alignment of the holes left a little to be desired, but the door panel and arm rest are higher quality and better feel than the factory original stuff.

I'll post some updates with the project from over the last couple of days, but at the moment, I'm at a standstill on an issue and could use a hand. The bottom line is that I have the smell of gasoline while I'm driving, and I think it may be coming from what looks like a fuel line that may have originally run to/from the charcoal canister. Check this link out if you think you might be able to help me figure out what to do with it: https://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/fuel-line-questions-gas-smell-in-engine-bay.924242/

Then there are a couple of things down there I don't recognize. I guess I've never been in the passenger fender before:

What's this spherical plastic thing with broken mounting tabs and what looks like a vacuum line that's hanging out in the little nook behind the front passenger quarter panel?:


How about this canister above the front passenger shock that has what looks like a vacuum line that I had pulled off for a moment right before I snapped this pic?:


Now the vacuum line that runs to the canister in the previous pic splits off and runs up into the engine bay. Right before the engine bay, it splits off and there's this plugged vacuum line.