90 SSP TX DPS has a new home

[hwyrnr221]

Well the last couple of days i have been working on getting the SSP de ricky racered. What the heck was the PO thinking and doing. Someone removed the smog pump, which i can deel with. But almost all the other stuff dealing with vacuum and emission were missing or diconected. Removed the under drive pulley and put the stock crank pulley back on. Has an electric fan and bee cool radiator which im okay with. But the fan was hooked up to come on when the key is turned on, so i put on an adjustable temp switch on it. Went to the local pull apart and found i think most of the stuff to reconect the emmision and vacuum back up with the exception of the smog pump.
while i was there they brought in 3 CVPI and the prior agency forgot to take out the 4 corner strobes and power supply, switch box headlight flasher and tail light flasher. Also scored the CVPI acc power pig tail and a ford overhead round work light and two spot lights one white and one red"yes i know they are not the right ones" got some mustang interior part. All this for $50.00. Good day for tracking.
thanks, James

[jarhed123]

Nice score with the CV equipment, and the SSP.

[hwyrnr221]

Neat story. Well was looking for some smog equipment on my local craigslist. I text a guy to see if he had one. the guy said no, why are you wanting a smog pump. I told him about my problem with the car and what my plans were, and that it was an SSP. The guy was intrigued by it being an SSP. Well it was determined he lived about a 1/4 mile from the house and told him to swing by and look at my project. Guy shows up and he's a Fox Body guy. We sit in the garage and BS for a little about cars and my plans, and he ask to hear it run. I start it up and its doing it surge thing and all. He ask if he could use my tools real quick and after about 15 min. of pulling the IAC and cleaning it and adjusting the TPS and throttle adjustment screw and retiming it the car runs great!!!
Very nice guy, has a couple of Fox Body's and looks like he has a bunch of stock Fox Body stuff like 4 lug stuff and other items that he said I was more then welcome to have when I needed it. His brother has a 4 cylinder car and his brother is wanting to swap his seats(the kind I need) for my SN95 seats, as well as his stock LX tail lights and headlights for the smoked after market lights on mine. And they are also setting me up with a local guy that has 20 something Fox Body mustangs he uses for part.

[John Connor]

I love to find people who swap parts for parts. And what a score.

[nighthawk756]

Fantastic chance meeting! Congrats!

[hwyrnr221]

I got the factory rear springs on with no problem. I am having a hard time trying to get the front factory sprins on. I used a spring compressor, i even removed to a arm. I am unable to get these things on. What am i missing.

[hwyrnr221]

Well got the car lifted back up on the stock springs, got a spot light mounted with the correct brackets "yes I know its not the right spotlight but it motivation" and traded for some stock tail lights.

reason its on the trailer had a little break down on the way home. I think a rocker arm came loose from my valve and spring replacement. will look at it on my days off.

Thanks for looking, James

[hwyrnr221]

Well tearing the front down so I can get it straighten and new core support and what ever else needs to be done.

Been working on getting parts ordered. So lets see how this goes.

Thanks, James

[nighthawk756]

Making good progress! Keep it up!

[hwyrnr221]

Well got the dash pulled out and the wire harness on the driver side pulled out. tomorrow I'm going to try to get the heater box pulled and the passenger harness pulled. Trying to get everything ready to pull the motor and trans on Thursday or Friday so I can get the car over to the guy that's going to replace and fix the radiator core support and the passenger side forward of the shock tower.

Needless to say I have never done a restoration or rebuild before and with all the parts around the garage its kind of overwhelming.