Mustang K Member Removal (96-04) 

Dude went from gaming videos to teaching me to how modify my car with clear instructions 🔥🔥

Mad respect for doing that without power tools

This has to be the best video on RU-vid for step by step on how to do this

Between the time lapse, using hand tools only and very clear instruction, this has gotta be the best on YT. We’ll done

Great video kid. I like the initiative you show. Small tip from a pro... when disconnecting the tie rod, strike the flat spot on the spindle with the hammer. Thats why its there. It will allow you to disconnect the tie rod easier than it was by striking the castle nut, and it also enables you to reuse the tie rod without risking damage to the stud, the threads, or the castle nut. The same trick works for ball joints as well. If you need further clarification please feel free to PM me. Im always happy to help a young gear head with their learning curve. Keep wrenching and doing such great videos. Good job man.

Great to see true car crafting and hard work are still alive in this younger generation. Great vid and very professional.

Wow nice job, better than some of these older guys showing this.. It’s nice to see every step.. Nothing worse than getting into something and realizing, wow much more than they showed..Great job kid..

BY FAR The best video I have found to instruct me how to do this. Getting ready to do this on my 01 Cobra in a week or two just to get the oil pan off.

Hello Thatlowdsg, I am helping with a K member on a Bullit, never done one before. Your video was very well done. One tip, loosen both control arm bolts and the control arm will swing down easily. Then take the front bolt completely out. Remove the nut from the rear bolt and the arm can be lifted enough to remove the rear bolt. Your mechanical skills combined with excellent videos are a great help. Keep going. AbueloJim

To this day 4 years later the best step by step video for this body!

Thanks for making this video bud! Ill be doing long tubes in my car this weekend and this is a major help to watch. Ratchet wrenches' video makes it seem way more difficult than it is and makes me think they have no clue what they're actually doing

Has to rewind a couple of times wen I bumped ur head on the bumper lol great work bro

Just subbed. Honestly the best video ive watched so far on doing this. Ive done it before but wanted refresher and your video was perfect. Just waiting on my engine support brace and ill be installing my upr k member.

Excellent job thank you for posting! I subscribed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just like alot of people I subbed because of your attention to detail !!

Great video, I recently redid all my front suspension on my gray 40th and the video does not show just how long of a process it really is. Keep it up! You made it look so easy.

Man I've been trying to find a detailed video like this, I have a 2002 ford mustang gt 💯💯😎 I love the details and the camera angles so helpful. Keep up the good work. I just became a subscriber 💯💯💯

Bro I love your video, I just dropped my K member, thank to YOUR videos, did it in 1 day. Thanks. Edit -- Seen i commented 3 months ago, just now dropping my K member lol. But your video was beside me the entire time.

Put in work without an impact gun Good shii bro iknow you a master using power tools

Bought a 2002 GT convertible earlier this year. Pretty sure I have a leak at my oil pan gasket. This video is super detailed and it looks like I have a lot of parts to stock up on before tacking this! New Subscriber

You're a god for makin this video dude me and my brother are about to take out the stock k member in his 99 GT and replace it with a tubular and then we are gonna drop the trans, pull the motor, install a new flywheel and clutch in the trans, and then put long tubes headers on

Tip on getting tie rod ends out easier... hit with 3 lb or 4lb sledge at the knuckle where the tie rod goes up. Hit it hard a few times and it falls right out

Best video out there for K removal, need to drop it so I can take my headers off and get my tranny out, only video on RU-vid that helps thank you

Good video, very detailed.

Thinking about doing this to my 04 GT. I think you convinced me

Thanks man , attempting this now!

AMAZING VIDEO BROTHER!

Well done young man. Quality video. Tubular K member is on my list of wants.

Dope video bro. I definitely didn't understand a single thing you did, but it was still entertaining to watch XD. Keep it up bro!

Please do a detailed video, I want to do this to myself, bro this fucking video saved my life. Thank you so much for the content. A small channel with Great content. --- 3 months later Edit - This is a Great Detailed video, Not sure why I said "Please do a detailed video" Lmao.

Great video sir

God bless you low dsg!! I couldn’t get my tie rod ends out because when I hit the castle but with a hammer it stripped my studs

Great vid man! I’ll be dropping my hopefully this weekend to start my twin turbo install

Thank you so much bro

Thatlowdsg, kind of reminds me of your laying under your car on the street at night to fix your exhaust! Good job to your vids. Nicks garage in Canada has some great vids of mopar and engine projects. Dave

Nice work Young Man. Have a clapped out 98 of my own, did some of this stuff myself, definitely better ways of having fun.

@thatlowdsg If I just need to get the Oil pan off. How far into this guide and taking everything apart do you have to get before you can just wiggle the pan out? Or do you basically have to drop the whole thing all the way still?

I gotta ask is the exhaust leak fixed lol. This helped me out a ton good job

Awesome video

Great video bro, I’m gonna be doing the same to my Mach 1 soon. This helps a lot!

Subbed Great video man keep making em

Badass vid thank you needed to see this so i can install longtubes

I’m about to drop my k member to fix an exhaust leak and put some nice shorties on it vs these crappily welded long tubes someone threw on. I will say this, a ball joint press is only 15$ and saved me almost half an hour of time. Knuckle and tie rod end were the worst.

Great video I appreciate it. One question… well maybe a few you removed all of that cuz your installing a new K member and new parts? So, I’m just trying to install long tubes and would like to keep as much of the things I can have attached to the K member like the A-arms, and power steering rack and like you just station it forward near the front of the radiator with the lines attached hopefully they can reach pretty far or far enough it doesn’t get in the way of space. So I do I have to remove it all to install the headers cuz most of that stuff is attached to the K-member except the frame bolts and motor mounts or engine mounts and etc? Any advice would be appreciated. Thinking of tackling this project this Saturday- Tuesday

Those jack stands are on recall from Harbor Freight if you take them in there they will swap them out

Great video made my job way easier keep it up

I don't know how you managed to remember where all those nuts and bolts go - not to mention getting everything back together again.

That's what I'm doing next week. It looks like a job

Que bien.!!!! Mis respetos.!!! Un abrazo exelente contenido .!! Estoy en el proyecto de hacerlo en el mío .también . .!

May be 4 years later but I'm about to install some long tube headers and I'm not trying to pay an arm and a leg to get it done

If you have a battery and or an air gun, and are trying to get bolts to fall through take an open end wrench and put it behind the built in washer and then hit the gun in reverse

Did you have to disconnect any specific lines??? Needing to drop my k member but im trying to do my research onto doing so first. Just not wanting to lower it and i miss a line or something i wasnt aware about.

Would this be the same for the 94-95 models cause my 94gt and 95 cobra need oil pan gaskets and I need to drop the k member

Them harbor freight recalls 🤣

Great vid, thanks for posting.

Sick video, I'm currently pulling the trans in my 04 due to a bad throw out bearing.

subbed and liked bro u are the shit keep up the good work

Great vid, thanks for it!

Try to smack the spindle to remove the outter tie rod end right on the side. Unless you’re gonna change it with like a 3 pound sledge

Can't believe it's been 3 years. How's the build going? I would love for you to do a on3 turbo install.

Awesome video buddy. Def deserved my sub. Upr ftw lol

Grade A video

YOURE THE SHIT ....for a young dude..great job! doing this same thing now, but im not in the statws so i have to build an engine fixture first..ihave an engine fixture t its too small and is for foreign cars...let me know where u got your k member from.......i will also be boosting my 3.8 but will install H BEAM rods and custom forged pistons first...

If I was only doing this only to remove and reseal the oil pan gasket, would you recommend dropping the K member all the way for extra clearance? I mean, how much harder would it be to drop it completely as opposed to lowering it? Great video btw, extremely detailed and informative!

Love the step by step tutorial! I’m actually going to do the oil pan gasket on my 97 cobra. I’ve started to do the first steps and I’m just waiting on my engine support bar to come in to finish dropping the K-member. Any tips that will help me make the job easier?

GREAT VIDEO ,I FIND THIS CHANNEL AND I LOVED IT, I WILL LIKE TO ASK DOEST THE MUSTANG 1999 v6 3.8 have Secondary Air injection pump, I HAVE THE CODE P0412, AND BE LOOKING FOR THE PUMP BUT A DONT FINED IT in the front of the cars i take it to mechanics and he said he did not fined it, and another mechanic said he as to remove or engine where is them pump, thankyou for your help.

Good video

Do I have to take apart my suspension to drop the k member

can you explain the need to remove control arms? I'm going full tubular and manual steering rack so I was gonna try and drop it all as one unit

No lift no power tools looks like we can get along

Hi, im wondering if you could help me out. I have a 2001 mustang gt and im having a loose steering issue. its very exaggerated at highway speeds, where it feels like the center of the wheel has play. almost like im driving on ice. so far ive replaced the steering shaft with a maximum motorsports solid one, replaced the rack and pinion (with new inner and outer tie rods) lower control arm ball joints, and front tires. Ive also added lowering springs with caster camber plates. still cant get rid of the sloppy feeling :/ not sure where else to go now.

Does this give you access to all the header bolts from the bottom

Is it necessary to unbolt the motor mounts?

I’m trying to fix a header leak. Is it really required I unbolt the steering rack from the k member since it’s going right back in? Trying to leave as much stuff together as possible when I drop it

Good job with the video work. And the mustang work. The best advice I could give a young mech. these days is to protect your lungs and your eyes and you will have a great life.

Great video! Where did you get the harness bar to support the engine. Thanks for your help. My 98 GT has the long headers, and I am removing them and updating the system..Jim.

For anyone else following this be careful putting your jack on the flat part of the crossmember the Jack has a tendency to slip off if you're not careful

I have to remove my k member to get to my headers I just got the engine support bar yesterday wish me luck

You did a really good job on this video! Quick question. If im not replacing my K member but rather need to remove it for header bolt access do the lower control arms and springs need to be removed?

How long did it take u and how about the steering pressure hoses on the rack n pinion did u disconnect em

What the name of the k-member? With that k member can you still use the factory control arms with springs

You had the engine on a hoist? While you were doing it?

I got to get to the rod bearings in my 04 v6 , would this method help me do this ?

How is the ride quality with tubular k member??

great video. you need a cordless ratchet

Will the stock one still go back on with new long tube ?

This is in my nightmares

8:31 Unlimited POWER

Do you still have the stock strut mount. And camper caster plate ??? Lol

For you people that their car is not as clean as his is, cut your control arm bolts out. Lots of times they don't come out as easy as his did. Make sure you order the bolts as you just can't find them at any auto parts store. CJ Ponys and LMR have them. A ball joint stud tool and a tie rod stud tool will make removing them easier too. Oh get the spring back in is made a lot easier with a maximum motorsports front spring installation tool.

is their a motor mount connected to the subframe if so did you have to remove it?

If i need to only remove my passenger header,do i have to drop whole k member?

Did...did he just remove the battery wire and leave the terminal connected

What is holding the engine

What do you need the harness bar for?

Doesnt seem hard at all but looks time consuming bro you need to get a impact gun you could of zapped all those bolts and nuts without breaking a sweat

10-23-20 thanks man! truckman00

About how long did this take you?

does this require coilovers?

Fam go to auto zone and buy an electric impact for 100$ 😅