Modular 4.6L Tech For all your 1996-2005+ 2V, 3V, and 4V modular motor needs.

My mustang is lowered, now I have a problem..

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
  #1  
Old 05-21-2006, 10:30 PM
cooper's Avatar
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 65
Default My mustang is lowered, now I have a problem..

This past weekend I lowered my Mustang with my Ford racing B springs, everything went well but now I have a rattling in the right rear. I re-tightened everything and it still is there it sounds like it is a non-load bearing rattle, in other words it appears to be fairly lose but it is bugging the tihs out of me, any ideas what it may be?
Cheers
Cooper
 
  #2  
Old 05-22-2006, 03:25 AM
Lances03SVT's Avatar
Super Moderator
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Carthage, Missouri
Posts: 9,684
Default

Could be your exhaust rubbing somewhere.
 
  #3  
Old 05-22-2006, 04:54 AM
cobra1923's Avatar
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Baltimore
Posts: 660
Default

I'd bet it's the exhaust. You have to check it on a rack (with the weight of the car on the tires). Check where it goes over the rearend and where it goes by the gas tank. You can losen the bolts and tweak it or you can take a hammer to the offending spot
 
  #4  
Old 05-22-2006, 05:03 AM
whitethunder46's Avatar
Always Detailin'
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Dayton, OH
Posts: 3,556
Default

My exhaust rattled against one of the bottom fender area right above the rear axle.
 
  #5  
Old 05-22-2006, 08:04 AM
cooper's Avatar
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 65
Default

Guys, I appreciate your responses thus far but if you see my sig, my exhaust is dumped before the axle, so it is completley free of the suspension components. So any other ideas?
Cheers
Cooper
 
  #6  
Old 05-22-2006, 09:54 AM
r3dn3ck's Avatar
Wowbagger hates me too!
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Magrathea/California
Posts: 9,865
Default

here's an idea... get down under the car and smack it with a hammer... when you hear the rattle, you've done found it.

If you disconnected the catback to install the rear springs, then chances are you did like I did and left a friggin socket inside your frame rail. I found it eventually and removed my 21mm socket from the frame rail. Rattle stopped.

Even with dumps, you can have exhaust rattle... the muffler can rattle against the frame rails with only a small misalignment. Don't discount it until you check it out.

Also, since you're using flowmasters you may have had one of the baffles inside break a weld and it's rattling. I've had that problem.

From experience, flowmasters dumped sound incredible on the outside but they flat azz hurt inside the car. I'd recommend getting something like a real muffler before your flows... short (12") cherry bombs work well to take some of the interior resonance out while keeping your sound nice and loud. If your car is anything like mine was with dumped flows, around 1800rpm will shake your nuts loose with the resonance.
 
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
jstn0127
Pictures
4
06-22-2006 05:45 PM
Grimmz
Pictures
26
01-01-2006 05:19 AM
dannyb785
Pictures
40
12-06-2005 01:14 PM
MacD02Stang
Pictures
32
10-28-2005 08:55 PM
dsg_gt2004
General Tech Forum
8
02-23-2005 03:11 PM



Quick Reply: My mustang is lowered, now I have a problem..



All times are GMT -7. The time now is 04:21 AM.