willis_racing
Wee Todd Did
The fastest and cheapest way I could think of to fix the panel gap was a body lift, but I'm not gonna pay $150 for some gay ass 3" kit off ebay. So one 12" stick of delrin later...
It's only 2" diameter, so it looks a little stupid sitting on top of the factory rubber donuts, but they're doing their job perfectly. Ended up going with 5/8" of lift. I think actually ordering up some amazon knock-off 3/4" hockey pucks would have been a better shot in hindsight, but this will work fine from what I'm doing, and it gave me a decent amount of drop to set on dad's lathe to remind him he needs to plug the fucker in and start using it already
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Liberated a mouse nest in the process
If you're like me and throw up in your mount a bit at the idea of stock replacement core support mounts being $90 just for the 2 of them, here's what I got. Energy suspension 9.4102G Universal Body Mounts. They're thicker than a factory Ford mount I think, but they weren't the main source of my issues. I'd do it again.
And after setting the front clip back down again, I got it shimmed up and in it's (I think) final resting spot.
It's only 2" diameter, so it looks a little stupid sitting on top of the factory rubber donuts, but they're doing their job perfectly. Ended up going with 5/8" of lift. I think actually ordering up some amazon knock-off 3/4" hockey pucks would have been a better shot in hindsight, but this will work fine from what I'm doing, and it gave me a decent amount of drop to set on dad's lathe to remind him he needs to plug the fucker in and start using it already
.Liberated a mouse nest in the process
If you're like me and throw up in your mount a bit at the idea of stock replacement core support mounts being $90 just for the 2 of them, here's what I got. Energy suspension 9.4102G Universal Body Mounts. They're thicker than a factory Ford mount I think, but they weren't the main source of my issues. I'd do it again.
And after setting the front clip back down again, I got it shimmed up and in it's (I think) final resting spot.