Rear Axle and Gas Tank Removal

By Brian | January 2, 2008

I removed the rear end and gas tank on Sunday December 30 so I could go to a junk yard in Iowa City, Iowa on Monday to measure the mounts for a 1997 Mercury Cougar. The pictures of the removal are below. Using an impact makes quick work of pulling parts like this.

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Starting to remove the rear end Starting to remove the rear end Underside look at the driveshaft hump The rear end
The rear end Gas tank is about out Rear end is out Underneath picture with rear end out
Underneath picture with rear end out Underneath picture with rear end out Underneath picture with rear end out Underneath picture with rear end out
Underneath picture with rear end out

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that a dead mouse smell kept coming back every time the garage started warming up from my heater. As Toucan Sam always says… “Follow your nose…..wherever it goes.” I ended up removing the passenger side grown effects and front fender and found the culpret… or culprets in the fender horn.

6 babies and a full grown… awesome. At least they were not in the inside of the car where they could really stink things up. Found a snake skin in the bottom of the fender too… makes me wonder where this car has been sitting.

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Where the mice were Starting to pull them out almost loosing my lunch There they are
Snake skin in fender Snake skin in fender
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