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Message: <blockquote data-quote="95PGTTech" data-source="post: 753740" data-attributes="member: 9525">July 3Really no work today, I normally start working on my stuff around 2PM, I started a little after noon today and really should have started at 11AM. Unfortunately, that meant the sales guys wanted to head out early and effectively shut my day down early (around 3 hours short) and my agenda.Realized I don't have a battery hold down (fails inspection in PA...). Threw one of them out last week literally. Sigh.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0299.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Yanked the front bumper. Fairly quick since the last jackass had about half the bolts supposed to hold it in actually there. I had to bust out the p/s foam where the crash beam was tweaked to get to the crash beam bolts. Got it off, replaced the front crash sensors. Didn't help the light, still have a 42 code.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0301.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0302.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0304.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Drilled out the bolt that was broken off in the radiator support that holds this rad support to fender brace on and set that up.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0305.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Replaced the broken p/s headlight connector by depinning the old and new, pretty straight forward.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0306.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0307.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0308.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />P/S cooler is a little tweaked so if I can chase down another parts car and get it for free I'll change it.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0309.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Drilled out the hood latch adjustment nipples and played around with it what seemed like 300 times, but now have a hood that shuts correctly and opens correctly and doesn't make the car seem more like a broken POS...very happy.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0310.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Had to drill out the header panel to fender alignment dowels...couldn't figure that one out. They were physically too small. Ran into that same issue with the old broken panel. Maybe these reproduction fenders weren't large enough to begin with?<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0311.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Got the header panel up (the goal for the day) minus a few missing bolts. Hopefully I can track down another guy with a parts car for all this odds and ends stuff and not get killed on it. This is the little nit picking stuff where I always lose money/time.<img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0312.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0313.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv245/cjr2003firefly2/1994%20Mustang/IMG_0314.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I was going to have my wife bring the front bumper and crash beam from the garage but heard of the closing early so I just parked it outside. She was coming over for dinner anyhow next door to my work so I'll wrap this part up Monday. I'm scheduled 8-2 so I'm assuming another early close (there is only one of the four service writers and three techs besides me there so I'm assuming a super dead day). Just trying to get one or two things done at a time - if nothing else, this car is teaching me to be cheap/creative/make stuff work instead of my normal throw money at it.Maybe I'll man up and just fiberglass repair this hood; I can't seem to find one. Everyone wants either $100+ for a stock one or has an aftermarket one they want $200+ for or their parts car got hit in the front. I did some minor adding of fiberglass to my SVO side skirts so it shouldn't be THAT bad...No additional costs on this day leaves me at...Total Invested To Date:$2420.97</blockquote>