I was surprised to see that both of my front springs were BROKEN on my 95 Cobra. I was adding a set of Eibach Sportlines and found two broken spring in the front, one of which I had to torch out it was rusted so bad. Here is the pic.
Changed the springs on my Cobra and look what I found....
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I was shocked about the first one. I said "look honey at how f**ked up this is". Then I took the second spring out and WOW. Then it was worse on the second because I had to break out the acetyline torch to get lower part out.
I never noticed any problems or I would have Immediatly changed them. The car is in GREAT shape but it came from Chicago and was in New Orleans for a while. I guess pot holes at em up!
There was pics earlier. I wonder what happened to them. They were rusted thru at like the bottom coilslytherin said:
I got the pic back up. Wierd that it dissapeared. The springs looked fine if I took the wheel off. It wasn't until I pulled the springs from the front and a piece of spring was left on the perch. I wonder if it has something to do with the rubber on the lower damper wearing out.
All fixed up now though! Down 2" and rides smoooooooth.
All fixed up now though! Down 2" and rides smoooooooth.
ha! happened to me too! they came out nice and easy tho! today i did the springs on my 88(a GA car, not a RI car), and the damn things were in great shape! (there is only 80K on her). on the cobra, i had to pry those damn things out, they minus well had been welded on!
Damn dude, that's horrible. Hmm... New Orleans = a lot of rain, Chicago = a lot of snow, thus lots of sand and salt. There's your culprit.
The moral of this story is to never trust that everything is working good! I constantly do PM on my car so I don't have problems like this but another shortly occurs! I love Mustangs but damn the breakdown alot. Especially when modified. Those mod parts just suck nowadays!
