When you mention "BOTH" air bags blown and a broken headlight..
Are you talking about the SRS (supplemental restraint system) Airbags inside the car?
If so, they are expensive, but I'm very sure Jeff has both the drivers AND the passenger side Air Bags from "The Black MarK" that I left in his driveway.
As far as "general items".
First thing you need to do is have the trans fluid "removed" and "replaced" with Mercron 5.
Even more important than that, but it never gets done until "later" is the 1-2 shift accumulator spring and piston upgrade.
The early Mark 8 transmissions have a SUBPAR piston and spring assembly and there is now an upgraded piston and spring available from Max @ Fivestarford.com
If you call Max, and tell him Tom and Tiff with the Mark 8's sent you, he'll give you a good price and he already has the part numbers needed for this upgrade.
While you have Max on the phone go ahead and order the 96+ transmission pan and filter.
This upgraded pan increases the capacity over the stock mark 8 pan and it has a much needed sump underneath the fluid pick up that prevents transmission killing fluid starvation.
Headlights, headlights, headlights.. where to start.
First...
The Halogen Housings that are 11 years old, need to be replaced. They are roughly 200.00 per side.
There are kits out there to "renew" these old oxidized housings but those kits do absolutely NOTHING to renew the burned up reflector INSIDE the housing.
Granted, the renewal kits make the lenses clear.. but it wont improve your light output unless the reflector that's inside the housing is addressed.
Currently there have been a few folks that have HOMEDEPO'D reflectors, but.. to date I've yet to see anything that I would do to "my car".
There are two alternatives to 1st gen Mark 8 headlights
1 spend 200ish per side on OEM replacement housings, there is a guy in Ebay selling pairs for 239.00 each brand new, in the box
The other alternative is to convert a non LSC Mark 8's headlights to the 95-96 LSC headlights.. the non LSC cars have 9005 halogen lights, the 95-96 LSC's have H.I.D. headlights which are very VERY much different than the non LSC halogen housings.
First noticeable difference is the "clear lens" on the front of the H.I.D.'s compared to the "fluted light diverters" that are in the 9005 halogen housings.
The MOST NOTED difference between the 9005 Halogen Housings and the 95-96LSC H.I.D. lights is the price.
2-9005 Halogen Housings 200-250.00 each
2-95-96 LSC H.I.D. Housings 400-500.00 each not including the HID light itself which costs about 180.00 per side.
FWIW: the 95 Mark 8 was the first domestic car to come factory with H.I.D. headlights.
*whew*
Sorry for the novel
