Good afternoon fellow SVTPerformance lurkers! If y'all remember my last post (which was also my first post), last summer I bought a 96 Cobra off of an old man which had been sitting for some time. I put some work into it last year and it seems to be a decent runner worthy of a bit more love. I've always wanted a Mustang of this era, and I figured that this would be a good one to learn how to do some of my own mechanical work.
Yesterday I woke it up from it's winter slumber and after a quick once over, it made the 50 mile drive home from storage flawlessly. I went in for a deeper look this morning and found a few areas that need to be addressed that have popped up since storage. The first one I noticed was this:
The morning after parking the car in the garage I noticed a fuel odor. Looked under the rear of the car and noticed that the plastic tank cover was wet with fuel. I jacked up the car, took off the rear wheel and it appears that the tank is seeping. I did some research and it looks like a fairly simple thing to replace the tank, and new ones are available on CJpony parts. If there's anything I should be aware of when ordering a tank or doing the replacement, I will take any advice I can get!
Also while under the car, I noticed some parts near the front were wet and shiny, that I didn't think should be, so I scooted in for a closer look and this is what I found:
You can't really tell from the photo (I did the best I could on my back while holding a flashlight and cellphone) but it seems to be seeping out of the place where the back of the transmission meets the driveshaft (Tailshaft?) The leak doesn't look super severe, but if it's something that's not crazy to do, I'd love for this car to be leak free!
Another question I had on my original post was that the car came with what seem to be aftermarket springs and aftermarket rear control arms, but I could not for the life of me figure out what brand or type they were. Well after crawling under the rear of the car some more, I found a little green label on the rear springs with the following number: F4ZC-5560-AEA. According to the inter-webs, this may be a stock spring off a 94 Mustang, but I am not sure. Anyone have any insight? It seems lower and stiffer than what I've seen from photos of stock springs. There are some nifty tubular adjustable rear control arms as well that I was not able to identify and I took some pics hoping that the hive-mind here may know:
The reason I was looking for this info, aside from my own curiosity of what parts are on my car, is because I plan on replacing the shocks/struts for a set that are not blown, and want to make sure I'm getting something appropriately matched to what is already on the car. I was thinking of either Koni Orange STR.T's (yay Koni sale) or Bilstein HD's (no sale and twice as much). I welcome all comments, suggestions, insults, etc on suspension choices. The ultimate goal for this car is to be a nice cruiser to have fun and cause some trouble, nothing that I think would require full coilovers or a $3,500 suspension kit from Maximum Motorsports
Thanks all in advance for helping out this clueless newb!
Yesterday I woke it up from it's winter slumber and after a quick once over, it made the 50 mile drive home from storage flawlessly. I went in for a deeper look this morning and found a few areas that need to be addressed that have popped up since storage. The first one I noticed was this:
The morning after parking the car in the garage I noticed a fuel odor. Looked under the rear of the car and noticed that the plastic tank cover was wet with fuel. I jacked up the car, took off the rear wheel and it appears that the tank is seeping. I did some research and it looks like a fairly simple thing to replace the tank, and new ones are available on CJpony parts. If there's anything I should be aware of when ordering a tank or doing the replacement, I will take any advice I can get!
Also while under the car, I noticed some parts near the front were wet and shiny, that I didn't think should be, so I scooted in for a closer look and this is what I found:
You can't really tell from the photo (I did the best I could on my back while holding a flashlight and cellphone) but it seems to be seeping out of the place where the back of the transmission meets the driveshaft (Tailshaft?) The leak doesn't look super severe, but if it's something that's not crazy to do, I'd love for this car to be leak free!
Another question I had on my original post was that the car came with what seem to be aftermarket springs and aftermarket rear control arms, but I could not for the life of me figure out what brand or type they were. Well after crawling under the rear of the car some more, I found a little green label on the rear springs with the following number: F4ZC-5560-AEA. According to the inter-webs, this may be a stock spring off a 94 Mustang, but I am not sure. Anyone have any insight? It seems lower and stiffer than what I've seen from photos of stock springs. There are some nifty tubular adjustable rear control arms as well that I was not able to identify and I took some pics hoping that the hive-mind here may know:
The reason I was looking for this info, aside from my own curiosity of what parts are on my car, is because I plan on replacing the shocks/struts for a set that are not blown, and want to make sure I'm getting something appropriately matched to what is already on the car. I was thinking of either Koni Orange STR.T's (yay Koni sale) or Bilstein HD's (no sale and twice as much). I welcome all comments, suggestions, insults, etc on suspension choices. The ultimate goal for this car is to be a nice cruiser to have fun and cause some trouble, nothing that I think would require full coilovers or a $3,500 suspension kit from Maximum Motorsports
Thanks all in advance for helping out this clueless newb!
