SPITFIRE |
05-09-2009 06:37 PM |
Mustang Gurus...I need help!!!
So...I have a 1996 GT...about as stock as stock can get. I have been forced to drive it lately (my 03 was a gift to the repo guy) anyways...the car has been started and ran but I hadn't gone out to actually drive it for a while. I noticed my thermostat housing leaking so I figured it was my gasket...I changed it out and it still leaks which brings me to my first question...could it be that the housing is f-d and I need a new one? Maybe I tighted it to much and crushed the new gasket???...
Second problem and this is the big one...I noticed the car was bucking pretty hard when I'm accelerating. I figured I'd change out the spark plugs...so I go to change them and as I'm popping off the boots...I notice that there's coolant down where the spark plugs are (from the thermostat housing leaking)...well...I have a friend who has a shop about 4 miles away from me so I soaked up as much as I could with paper towles and ear swabs...popped the boots back on and started drivng down to the shop. Well...I do't know If I fouled the plugs by doing that or what but I ended up making it about a mile b4 I turned around and came back home. The check engine light was flashing at me...which I've never seen happen b4...anyways...I got out and it smelt like something was burning. I'm guessing that the coolant I couldn't get to that was by the sparkplug arc'd burning part of the head and caused the spark plug to misfire. (The car was bucking REALLY bad on the way back home after I decided to turn around and it seemed like it couldn't make a whole lot of power) so bassically I'm asking if you guys think this is right??? and how I go about fixing it...thanx in advance
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