Basic Maintenance

I visited US-Parts today to get some basic maintenance parts for the Mustang. I spent some time earlier crawling under the car checking things and found a few small issues. The brake pads were pretty thin and cracked a bit. They needed to be replaced. Driver side suspension was also squeaking annoyingly while driving. Greasing the joints fixed that problem. I also found some rust from the right side front frame. I'll might have to weld a small fix there.

I also decided to get a new radiator cap as some coolant was coming out of the overflow hose. Could be because the old cap had perished. And while at it, I got a new air filter and some engine gaskets ready for winter.

It was raining the whole evening so I could not wax the car today. It was a good time to check the carburetor and fix the accelerator pump. I found a good blog earlier that has a lot of information on old Mustangs: The Care And Feeding Of Ponies. It also had a nice post about Autolite carbs. I followed the instructions and replaced the pump diaphragm. This still did not completely fix the stumble. Sometimes the pump seemed to work and some times it did not squirt any gas. I'll investigate it further later...