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Thanks for the help guys. Found that the IAC sensor wasn't making a good connection and the harness clip was broken. Cleaned it and wrapped it with electrical tape to hold it tight- good to go.

Timing?

I was doing some work on my buddy's car for him since he's over in Iraq and won't be home for a few more months. His dad brought his car to my house and it seemed to be running fine- he left it idling in my driveway for a minute. I dont know a whole lot about his car but I know engine mods...

In my stang with a 5 spd I've had 3.27's, 3.73's, and 4.10's. IMO 3.73's were the best all around. Although with the 3.27's you could run the 1/4 in 3rd lol. 4.10's are fine around town but I got transferred at my job and went from a 4.6 mile drive to work to a 30 mile drive and they were a...

Man it's always the little things lol. Yep I looked down there again- I didn't even see the other end of it before. I thought it was odd that it had a circle but I had never set the timing on it before. It was dead on 10* right where it was supposed to be. Guess at least I was pretty good...

I bought a set of used MT ET drags 26x10x15 on wheels and have decided I would rather just run drag radials. The tires appear to have a lot of life left in them by looking at the wear indicators. I would like to trade for a set of 275/50/15 drag radials or sell for $150. Would prefer not to...

Thanks I did not know that. I wondered why it was a circle. It's about 1' past the edge of the pointer.

Thanks for the help. I checked the wires and they're all in the right places. Just for S&G's tomorrow if it's slow at work I might pull the dizzy out and move it a tooth just to see if it does anything. I couldn't really read the marks that it's set at right now but looking through that...

How could the distributor be out 180? I haven't cranked the engine at all with the dizzy out. The balancer looks good- it was replaced a few years ago. I have a stock timing pointer- with the little O :). So from what ya'll have said even if I put the dizzy in 1 tooth off from where it was...

That's what's messing me up. If I advance the timing quite a bit it runs properly. The balancer has been replaced and was set by a mechanic- he didn't mention anything about it being off. So if it was correct (allegedly) before and it doesn't matter if it's off a tooth what would throw it off?

Got another distributor today and that solved the problem with the no spark. I also got a timing light and here's where more problems begin. I warmed it up; shut off, unplugged SPOUT, started it up and set it to 10* BTDC. It was running quite rough. Shut it off and plugged in the SPOUT and...

Any ideas why I don't get spark with the spout connector hooked up?

Yeah I need to invest in a timing light. Will do that tomorrow. Something I forgot to mention- when the SPOUT is connected the engine will just crank and not even attempt to fire I am not getting any spark. When I disconnect the SPOUT it starts and runs fine. If it starts and runs fine with...

Ok- I have a 1994 Mustang GT 5.0 5pd. I finally found a noise I've been trying to track down and it was the distributor. I put a new distributor in today (of course was off a tooth so I put it in where it was supposed to go), and went ahead and put a new cap and rotor on. I moved the...

I can't really give you a difinitive answer but it can't be much different than buying "synthetic blend" oil

I would spend the extra $ to get some better control arms. I have the Blue Oval Industries control arms- poly on both ends- and the bushings wear out fast.

I put the bushings in and left the bolts loose- put the wheels on it and drove it down the driveway and back into the garage to let the suspension settle a little. Then jacked it up by the diff and tightened the bolts up. The rear suspension was compressed so it should be the same right?

The only time my cable felt notchy is when it was about to break- some of the strands were broken and some weren't. Like everybody else said, make sure there aren't any sharp bends in it and it's not next to anything too hot. Make sure it isn't scraping anything where it comes through the...

Well for now I guess I'll just replace the bushing. I still have 1 new poly bushing left so might as well fix it for free. When I get some $ I'll definately go with an all new set of arms. WhiteCobra I understand what you're saying about the poly's wearing out due to hard cornering, and I...

Would I be OK to just replace the lower's and leave the uppers as they are? I've never had a problem with the bushings in them (yet)