A 100 isnt any bigger than 80 series.

 

it's slightly larger and with the IFS, the body will shift more in off camber situations = potentially hitting trees.

 

Nice wheeling pics, that's some beautiful scenerey! Those inclines look pretty steep, I bet a lot more so in person!

That dent above your gas filler door didn't look to bad, bet you can pop it out from the inside without to much trouble, lol.

 

an immaculate 2006? 100 series with about 80k miles went down the same trail and rolled through with a helluva lot more body damage than everyone on the trail. bashed in driver side rear wheel well ( between the door and the wheel well ) pretty good, and got a bunch of rock rash on the fenders. Lets just say, its no longer immaculate

 

its about 2-3" wider than an 80. and the rear tends to get out of whack because the front isn't on the same geometry anymore since its IFS front.

 

yeah itll be easy. just gonna hit it with the head gun and press on it with a glove on the inside. shouldn't be a thing. yeah it was quite an incline.

 

I have to say, I think this is a personal experience type thing. I have limited my gear quite a bit and it helped tremendously with the body roll... However, I definitely think that my 4 inch Trail Gear springs in the back had a bit less roll over to say the least. I definitely think it's weird that the 6 inch all-pro springs that I run now definitely have a better weight capacity... I guess plain and simple the Trail Gear springs reach the over load faster? By the way, Ed, I believe I am at 26 inches ground clearance to frame,... And I still think it's a little too much. Obviously as I come down I have to address other things as well... And I still have to get rid of the 1 inch body lift that I put in out of emergency when we were doing the body swap and things were about to make contact due to the damage to the bumper. That's fixed now and as long as I can get a little more clearance around my triple stick linkage, I believe I can delete it all together and just install the brand new replacement body bushings and remove the stock....

.....Anyway, I'd be interested to know what type of way you carry back there Michael. I carry a spare and limited tools, recovery gear and air supply hardware for my onboard air... Oh yeah, and the 10 inch sub box which doesn't weigh much. Just removing around 200 pounds worth of miscellaneous stuff and the roof rack which is around 80 with all the lights, the difference in stability was definitely noticeable... but I would still rather have more droop and the bumps keeping me up right then massive flex both ways...

 

Great pictures of your trip, Michael!

 

Finally got all of my gauges working correctly. It took me a bit to get them all setup because I couldn't figure out what size the threads going into my block were. ( they're 1/8 BSPT ) So ordered a 1/8 bspt male to 1/8 NPT adapter. with a 1/8 npt TEE with a male, female and one female BSPT for the stock oil pressure sender. put it all together and it worked. no leaks, and both oil pressure gauges work flawlessly.



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Nice! ^^^^^^

 

Couple updates.

Ordered a new MC 1200lb clutch. ( damn they're a pain to get ahold of nowadays. )


The power steering pump has been giving me a little whine. So I decided to drain the fluid and what I found was kinda misleading...


Yay for power steering fluid in a pump that uses ATF... Anywho, swapped it to ATF. no leaks, no whine, no problems.

 

Thoroughly disappointed right now. I had the top end done by the same shop that did my top end on the 92 ( no idea why I even went back there ) and I fired the truck up this morning and it spit white smoke out. So I'm like what the hell, maybe its condensation. Go back inside to get ready for work, come back out ( sitting at about 160 degrees now ) and rev it a little, more white smoke. Truck's running just fine, no miss, no rough idle. I drive it to work. I get to work ( 185 degrees now ) and rev it. More white smoke and do some more "what the hell" thinking. I go inside, grab a 8.5x11 paper, put it in front of the exhaust pipe, let it run for a few seconds, turn it off and smell it. Sweet coolant smell... Lovely. Mind you, I have about 6k miles on a brand new top end. I'm waiting on the temp to cool down and i'll go outside and check everything. Hopefully the 3vz isn't ready to give up the ghost! guess we'll find out.

 

lesson learned...... twice.... ouch


Good luck!

 

tell me about it.

Its the valve seats. they're failing after 6k miles. everything is covered under warranty.

 

Need to start gathering engine swap parts...

 

need to sell both mustangs, get a DD, then do that....

 

3.4 swap!

 

37s are sold. 35s are ordered.

 

Why the change in tire size?

 

Lower the rig down and allow for better stuffing. While 37s and 8 inches of lift look cool, it's terrible for actually providing useful suspension and general off road manners.

Plus, better gas mileage.