Mustang5l5's Progress Thread - Archived Progress thread '08-'20.

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More stuff apart. Started poking around. Originally I thiugh I had to change out one door tension spring but I discovered both roller are worn and one spring rusted and snapped off.

CAnt wait to clean this all up and replace it.

Pass side worn roller
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Drivers side worn roller and snapped off spring
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Need another set of these
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I know @jrichker waa interested in how these get done
 
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Plugging along. Got in an hour here and there between house projects.

Many years ago when I was 17/18, I tried to use the radiator suppprt to jack up the car. Fortunately I stopped before major damage was done. But this is one thing I’ll try to correct

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I got curious so I yanked off the cobra lower. I set this in place 20 years ago as one of my first mods. Was curious to see if any vac leaks.

There were none. I did however use too much rtv around coolant ports

However, interesting to note the ford Racing (or Ford Motorsport whatever they were circa 2000) kit shipped with a small baffle lower intake.

My ported rxploder intake already has the large baffle

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Also, not sure why that one particular dead port had a frothy mess inside. The bolts were all corroded. New hardware incoming
 
Also, not that I had any suspicion the motor wasn’t original, but I cleaned off 31 years of grime to find the vin stamp on the engine block.

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This block is gonna be tough to degrease
 
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But....here’s the bad news.

Pass side strut tower. Some minor bubbling, but still solid. I figure some wire wheel with some primer and paint will clean this up. Not a big deal.

Not too bad for a northeast car
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But how’s the drivers side you say? Well, I knew I’d have to address it, but it’s much worse than I thought.

This will need to get fixed, with steel parts. I can weld...so really the big hurdle is finding a welder.

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But overall wasn’t bad getting this out. Did the trans removal and engine pull myself today alone in under 3 hrs.

My garage looks like a mustang exploded all over the inside. Time to shuffle some parts into storage for a few months and organize everything

Next phase, some power washing. Not too many warm days left so I want to get the car and engine degreased.

Then...I’ll start with the motor first. I’m curious to see the Pistons/cylinders. If everything looks good I’ll assemble, if not...short block time.

After motor is built, I’ll work on the bay

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Flywheel. Only about 1k miles on this.

Resurface or just get a new one?
Clutch and pressure plate looked good

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I put a new one on when I had mine apart, and although the clutch was good..... I was told they should wear in together, so I put a new clutch in as well. With only 1000 miles, maybe a resurface and the same clutch is ok?
 
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