Tire and Suspension issues

Well golly gee willickers, isn't that great? Thanks for reaching out UPR. I think we established most of that already. Your products have been fine, and probably still are. The car definitely handles better than my last stock mustang.

Parts got picked up by UPS from MM on Friday instead of Thursday, so I won't see them until Monday, and UPS isn't open to let me pick it up from where it is. Bummer.

Spring Isolators installed in about 30 minutes today. Clocked the springs as close to the same as possible. The car seems to be much better on a test drive, but still getting a creak from the same area, though less than previously. So I started removing interior panels on the drivers side, in front of the passenger seats and also in the trunk. Then, I'd get out and bounce on the outside corner and stick my head in the trunk, all 5'9" of me.

Got my taller buddy to help me bounce the car while I lie in the trunk and I can isolate the sound to be coming from the top corner of, for lack of better words, the driver's side bulkhead between the back seat and the trunk. Yanked out a piece of foam insulation and pitch it in the can, then grab a can of some silicone spray lube and hit the seams of the panels that squeaked when I pushed them with my hand. Nothing was loose, but a spot weld or something must have busted loose is my guess. The car no longer makes any squeaks or creaks... from out back.

Pretty sad to think that I may have a pretty tired 110K mile chassis with a bad alignment on the K-member and what appears to be complete asshattery of the front suspension. Kenny Brown has some pretty intense looking sub-frame connectors and a 3pt rear strut tower brace that I can imagine would complement a MM strut bar and nix their sub frame connectors.

Sharad said:

I wasn't trying to spam up your thread. Just trying to help. And the offer is open, if there's anything we can do to help, let us know.

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So what shops out here in the Los Angeles area could you refer me to?

and the squeak from the rear bulkhead/trunk divider is back... figures.

Passenger front tire finally died yesterday. In the process of getting it all fixed. Reinstalling cc plates and getting car aligned. Not sure how important that strut tower crack is since the alignment guy said it wasn't that big of an issue.

This will be my last post in this thread. I'm starting a single thread for all future repairs/mods called "Project True Blues". Please direct your responses there.