Here's a fun one. What's been your most expensive mistake while working/using your Mustang? Accidentally broke the windshield, day dreaming and had a fender bender?
Lets hear some stories.
Lets hear some stories.
LukeMustangMalta
Not selling a 289/4spd coupe when I had a good offer on it. Blew the motor a few days later and had to basically give it away because I had to go back to school.
That and not buying the low mileage, excellent original condition K GT fastback for $4k, circa late 70's
That and not buying the low mileage, excellent original condition K GT fastback for $4k, circa late 70's
OK, I'm in!
I love this thread. I started to respond to it yesterday but got overwhelmed by the sheer number of mistakes I’ve made over the last 14 years of owning a mustang. I then started to cry and drink, got arrested, spent the night in jail, bailed myself out, and I’m back to add my examples. Seriously though, I sometime feel like a charter member of the Jay Leno “more money than brains club”.
#1 is the time I couldn’t get my brakes to bleed. To “fix” it, I purchased two master cylinders, 2 sets of calipers, gallons of brake fluid and spend a couple weeks trying unsuccessfully to bleed the brakes. My poor wife sat in the car and bleed brakes for hours. I didn’t realize that at some point I also sat the top to my MC on my paint and bubbled up the paint. Had the car towed to a garage where they bench bled the calipers and had everything sorted out in about two hours.
#2 I really like the fat tire look. I spent a lot of time looking at other people’s cars and knowing exactly how big I could go with tires, and offsets. Shawn at SorT (a great guy) helped me order custom (as in cannot be returned) 17” TTII’s. I also added every expensive Goodyear rubber and installed them on the car. The rears rubbed badly. I spent weeks slowly removing inner fender metal (newly painted car). I also installed stiffer shocks. I finally got to the point where the tires didn’t rub except for the rare exception when I would hit a really large dip at speed. All was good.
This winter I decided to do the Shelby drop. You guessed it. Because of the lowered front of the car the rears are now rubbing again. To make matters worse, now the fronts are rubbing the inner fenders too. I now have 4 tires rubbing whenever I go over a small bump. That’s it… I go on the interwebby thingy and purchase 4 new wheels and tires with more reasonable offsets and sizes. Guess what, one rubs in the back and one in the front!!! I hate myself! I am now removing more metal from the rear quarter and taking the car for a front end alignment to see if I can get more camber.
I’ve got a dozen more of these stories and a basement full of “extra” parts to remind me of them all.
I love this thread. I started to respond to it yesterday but got overwhelmed by the sheer number of mistakes I’ve made over the last 14 years of owning a mustang. I then started to cry and drink, got arrested, spent the night in jail, bailed myself out, and I’m back to add my examples. Seriously though, I sometime feel like a charter member of the Jay Leno “more money than brains club”.
#1 is the time I couldn’t get my brakes to bleed. To “fix” it, I purchased two master cylinders, 2 sets of calipers, gallons of brake fluid and spend a couple weeks trying unsuccessfully to bleed the brakes. My poor wife sat in the car and bleed brakes for hours. I didn’t realize that at some point I also sat the top to my MC on my paint and bubbled up the paint. Had the car towed to a garage where they bench bled the calipers and had everything sorted out in about two hours.
#2 I really like the fat tire look. I spent a lot of time looking at other people’s cars and knowing exactly how big I could go with tires, and offsets. Shawn at SorT (a great guy) helped me order custom (as in cannot be returned) 17” TTII’s. I also added every expensive Goodyear rubber and installed them on the car. The rears rubbed badly. I spent weeks slowly removing inner fender metal (newly painted car). I also installed stiffer shocks. I finally got to the point where the tires didn’t rub except for the rare exception when I would hit a really large dip at speed. All was good.
This winter I decided to do the Shelby drop. You guessed it. Because of the lowered front of the car the rears are now rubbing again. To make matters worse, now the fronts are rubbing the inner fenders too. I now have 4 tires rubbing whenever I go over a small bump. That’s it… I go on the interwebby thingy and purchase 4 new wheels and tires with more reasonable offsets and sizes. Guess what, one rubs in the back and one in the front!!! I hate myself! I am now removing more metal from the rear quarter and taking the car for a front end alignment to see if I can get more camber.
I’ve got a dozen more of these stories and a basement full of “extra” parts to remind me of them all.
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