What have you done to your mustang today?

DieHarder

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New parts recently replaced includes: shocks, struts, strut mounts, front lower control arms and a sway bar kit. Tires are less than 2k miles, wheels were balanced when they were mounted. I’ve confirmed those little brake disc retainer clips were removed and all lug nuts are tight. I am running wheel spacers but didn’t have an issue when they were freshly installed. The shake became more apparent after a little track day so I also changed all the brakes just to eliminate a warped disc etc..

All the old ball joints on the tie rods are pretty loose and easy to move by hand while the new ones are super tight so I’m hoping they’re just worn out. I’ll get them changed out and see where I’m at from there.

If what you've done doesn't fix your issue you might want to take the tires in and have them spun again. Check for uneven tires/rims. I just had to return two tires that were bad and get a new set. If the tires/rims are uneven/out-of-round no amount of balancing will make them ride well. It happens. Discount tire has a Road Force system that'll tell if the tires are too uneven or not (no, I don't work for them).
 

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My son picked up a cheap 06 GT. To say it needs some rear end work as an understatement. Looks like they lost a pinion bearing and then it all went downhill from there. Pretty heavily ground out pig casing


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Recently did UPR hood pins and the Hurst short shifter.

Now trying to figure out my UPR catch can. Not fitting where it's supposed to go. Wondering if I got a wrong wrong mount bracket. Sucks I ordered this thing years ago. Will go back to UPR to ask questions. Ugh
 

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My son picked up a cheap 06 GT. To say it needs some rear end work as an understatement. Looks like they lost a pinion bearing and then it all went downhill from there. Pretty heavily ground out pig casing


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Are you going to rebuild?

I have a 3:55 R&P that only has about 10k miles on it. I took it out of my 05 and packed it away. You’ll need a bearing kit.


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Are you going to rebuild?

I have a 3:55 R&P that only has about 10k miles on it. I took it out of my 05 and packed it away. You’ll need a bearing kit.


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Trying to buy a takeout rear axle assembly. Supposedly have one being shipped here locally today. Went to buy two separate axles nearby both of them turned out to be 7.5s not eight. 8.8.


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Been chasing HE pump issues. Finally broke down so I bought a new 2013 HE pump for a GT-500; pulled the entire wiring harness that feeds it and replaced all of the connections; new high current power wire; cut and resoldered everything; shrink tubed everything; put it back together and bench tested it. Seems to run fine now. IAT's around 98 today for incoming air at the entry point to the blower and 123 compressed which is about right (about 20 - 23 deg temp difference for uncompressed vs compressed air) so will run it for the time being. Easy to tell if the HE pump is not working IAT's on the compressed side jump about 40 - 50 degrees compared to ambient.
 

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Installed BMR relocation brackets. Ride feels planted, and a bit smoother. Yes, it needs cleaned and painted. Will do that after upper control arm and bracket (BMR)0ED3FE2A-10BD-4FED-BE3D-71154A36551C.jpeg3A31C4A2-63C7-4772-849C-D13B3A7186E5.jpeg0ED3FE2A-10BD-4FED-BE3D-71154A36551C.jpeg
 

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Spray some Rustoleum Rust Reformer on those rusty bits, it’ll come out great.
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