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You'll never believe it

November 19, 2012, 09:59:17 PM

So I was taking a peek at the front tire of the Mustang (parts car) to see what size the tires are. I put my hand on the tire, and it moved. I did not remember leaving a jack or jackstand under it, so I looked under to see what was holding it up. NOTHING. This car is standing on three wheels only. I wish I could video this. Any thoughts? I am thinking the car is twisted or something wrong with the suspension or possibly both.

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Reply #1 – November 19, 2012, 10:57:33 PM

Car has to be twisted.

I've never seen that before.

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Reply #2 – November 20, 2012, 12:05:10 AM

Just another thing to mention. This condition did not exist when the engine was in it. If this is indeed twist, I wonder what engine was in it before. I removed a stock HO 5.0.

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Reply #3 – November 20, 2012, 07:40:01 AM

I would suspect suspension binding on the lifted tire. I speculate when you removed the engine and the springs raised the now lighter car, the rest of the springs picked up the inflexible, binding suspension one. This may be a testament to the relative stiffness of the chassis rather than any twist.

Daniel

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Reply #4 – November 20, 2012, 03:01:42 PM

Quote from: BornInAFord;402885

I would suspect suspension binding on the lifted tire. I speculate when you removed the engine and the springs raised the now lighter car, the rest of the springs picked up the inflexible, binding suspension one. This may be a testament to the relative stiffness of the chassis rather than any twist.

Daniel

Surely you jest! Stiffness and Fox ANYthing don't belong in the same sentence....unless some well-placed pieces of steel are welded in.

On a more serious though, I'd guess the car has a broken spring on the one side? It could be twisted, but I've seen a couple of broken springs on Foxes I've spun wrenches on, same result. In fact, that's how i discovered the one on my own Stang, changing wheels/tires, and when I went to unbolt the lugs, the whole assembly moved. Freaky...thought it was coming off the jackstand at first lol.

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Reply #5 – November 20, 2012, 04:28:03 PM

I had to chuckle when I re-read the Fox and relative stiffness comment... I had planned on putting a caveat, but perhaps "relative" would do in addition to the "speculative" verbiage? (I'm a scientist and do a LOT of hypothesizing, LOL) :D Still a broken spring should allow the wheel to drop to the ground unless the suspension itself was binding? Depends on how it broke or was twisted against the strut?

In my 66 Mustang, when the control arms weren't lubed for years, I could jack up the car a few inches off the ground and come back the next day before the suspension relaxed enough to let the wheels drop to the ground...

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Reply #6 – November 22, 2012, 11:43:12 PM

Quote from: ThunderbirdSport302;402904

Surely you jest! Stiffness and Fox ANYthing don't belong in the same sentence....

puppies maybe???

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Reply #7 – November 23, 2012, 10:24:23 AM

What's puppies? (Don't need it, and if I DID take it, the wife would kill me, or send me C.O.D. to the Bunny Ranch) lol

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Reply #8 – November 27, 2012, 09:27:13 PM

When i built my old 94 SC, i was surprised how stiff the chassis is on the MN 12 car compared to my vert, it was night and day. You could jack up one side of the rear and the other side comes right up with it.

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Reply #9 – November 27, 2012, 11:49:13 PM

Try playing with a crown vic. Basically the same car, but with bumper jacks.now that's creepy.

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Reply #10 – November 28, 2012, 08:49:23 AM

Maybe the car was in accident before and the subframes have a diamond to them. Not uncommon for cars to go 2 inches out of square sometimes. I worked on a 67 mustang that was three cars grafted into one, talk about body panel gap issues, took a lot of bondo in the gaps to make the car look like a crackhead didn't weld it together.

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Reply #11 – November 28, 2012, 10:29:16 PM

I had an 87 cougar with struts so screwed up you could pick up on the fender, lift the car up 5" or so, let go and it would stay. Not off the ground, mind you, but still