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General karthief said:

Soooo, wat broke????
And how did ya do it????

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It’s not a very heroic or exciting story. But is a story of ignorance. I had parked the car in my side yard,out of the driveway (and not in the garage for reasons I don’t recall.)
To make room for guests to a birthday party for my youngest son. Next day it rained-a lot. Followed by several more days of heavy rain. So the Mustang was basically stuck-cause wet +grass + smooth street tires = Not gonna move lol. The ignorance comes in a couple ways- First is something super simple like checking and cleaning the drain hole in my functional ram air hood . Second is not to start the car before doing said check/clean.
I did neither of those things and hydrauliced the motor-damage occurred, and it’s basically been sitting ever since

90sickfox said:

What happened, man ??? There's a story behind this. Come on...ya gotta let us know.

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Minor update-(some un pictured) had to replace a few bent push rods,drained the oil,didn’t really find a lot of water-there was some. Car wouldn’t start- had fairly weak spark- finally installed the Summit/Spectra distributor I’ve had on the parts shelf for 2 ish years- also changed the stock coil for a Super high Performance and often sought after Amazon ignition coil. Still wouldn’t start. Put my fuel pressure gauge and all was well, so I Pulled the not very old spark plugs-very fouled out. Replaced em with a fresh set and she started- pig rich, rolling black smoke and running terrible- after a few minutes it started clearing up and idling pretty normal-smoke cleared up and I was pretty happy-first mistake- instantly back to running terrible-coal rolling and sputtering until it died. Then it wouldn’t restart. Couple days later I pulled one of the new plugs and it was fuel soaked. So I bought a new mass airflow and another set of plugs. Changed it all an no start- Now I have no fuel pressure at the rail,can’t hear the pump run-I have power to the pump-so now I’m changing a fuel pump …. Lol

Familiar sight- Mustang on jack stands in the garage lol. This time-mainly maintenance-installing tail pipes and rewiring/removing/adding gauges etc.

hoopty5.0 said:

So what was causing it to run so poorly from last year?

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I don’t 100% remember the order of events, but ultimately the Summit distributor was malfunctioning-after swapping the stocker back in it pretty much cleared up-there where a few other New parts failures mixed in along with it

Small amounts of progress happening, finally finishing some small upgrades I’ve had sitting around for awhile- and the old thing is finally street legal again

Has probably been 10 years since this car has had tailpipes… lol

As is it always is with this car-there is Good and Bad-today was the day the Mustang came out of the garage-no major issues before taking it off the stands-other than the insanely expensive flexible dip stick kept popping out. Checked all the fluids-got it up to temp etc. drove it around the neighborhood a few Time’s. She was ready-

There she is-maiden voyage to Kroger-everything worked like it’s supposed to-oddly harder to drive with how quite the tailpipes make it.

Here’s moments before the bad-at around $38 dollars worth of fuel-5 gallons of it decided to coming pouring out-flooding that whole area-it was awesome-had to push the car out of the fuel while the attendants cleaned up $15 worth of regular. Guess when I replaced the filler neck gasket-I got it wrong.. Dunno … But way more Good than Bad today

Update: The Good- Fuel leak was fairly straight forward-filler neck gasket had pulled out-guess I’m really glad it wasn’t leaking fuel when I welded the tail pipes on


The Bad-successfully drove the mustang to work with no issues-on the way home the low oil light came on and my oil pressure was down. Yup, stupidly expensive flexible dip stick had blown out again. Still more good than bad

95BlueStallion said:

Glad you're able to drive it. Figure out that dipstick and it sounds like you're in the clear!

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I appreciate ya brother. Just so you know-I’m still rocking the bright yellow Accel plug wires you sent me Lol