stick70
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- Joined
- Sep 1, 2006
- Location
- North Carolina
Updates! I've been doing weeks and weeks of monotonous grinding, fitting, removing, grinding, cussing, grinding, then lots of painting.
I also got a new phone that takes decent pictures, so maybe I'll have more material for this thread in the future lol.
I've finally got the suspension about 90% finished. The only thing I've got left to finish is the sway bar. I ordered a poly bushing and bracket kit, but I was unaware that the brackets changed in 67. I'll have to modify my car to fit, the later ones are much stronger.
I also got my MS3Pro in, and for some reason I thought they were smaller than the MS1...I'll have to explore places under the very small 122 dash to put this thing.
I've also had the 1800 rear end rebuilt with new bearings, seals, and 4:10 gears. The 4:30 would have just been too much for this car so I got it swapped out. Good thing too, the shop said that the carrier had spun a bearing, and that would have been no bueno on my upcoming cross-country trip in this thing.
After receipt from the axle shop I painted it up and threw it in the car. I still need to finish weld the upper link brackets to the chassis, re-make one of the lower bars, and make some limiting straps, but aside from that it's done. I have high hopes that it won't come back out of the car.
You may remember that I was putting bag-overs on the front of this thing and it was an obscene amount of work. Well that's done too, and I've finally got the cross member in and everything bolted up. This should be final as well.
I also decided to change to 740 rotors for the front and an adaptor. This is in lieu of the redrill that I did, I got the pattern off center on one of the hubs. I'll try and find another set, but in the mean time this will work.
Note that I'm using the stock sway bar pick up points. They have been moved, but they are the same apart from that.
Given these developments today I was finally able to set the car back on the ground and roll it back and forth in the shop. I can't express how excited I was to see this:
Laid out it tucks about an inch of tire in the rear and almost all of it in the front. I think it could use a little more spacer in the front, but the offset in the rear is perfect with no spacer at all. This is sitting on bump stops too, if I didn't have them it could go at least a half inch lower all around.
Also note, I got a roof box for cheap. This will also help on the aforementioned trip this summer.
Here's a shot of the front cross member at the lowest ride height. It's...close
. But the car won't be driving when it's this low so it's all good. You can also see the air lines for the front bags, they'll be routed down the frame rails on each side.
Next up, trans rebuild, final clutch and engine install.
I also got a new phone that takes decent pictures, so maybe I'll have more material for this thread in the future lol.
I've finally got the suspension about 90% finished. The only thing I've got left to finish is the sway bar. I ordered a poly bushing and bracket kit, but I was unaware that the brackets changed in 67. I'll have to modify my car to fit, the later ones are much stronger.
I also got my MS3Pro in, and for some reason I thought they were smaller than the MS1...I'll have to explore places under the very small 122 dash to put this thing.
I've also had the 1800 rear end rebuilt with new bearings, seals, and 4:10 gears. The 4:30 would have just been too much for this car so I got it swapped out. Good thing too, the shop said that the carrier had spun a bearing, and that would have been no bueno on my upcoming cross-country trip in this thing.
After receipt from the axle shop I painted it up and threw it in the car. I still need to finish weld the upper link brackets to the chassis, re-make one of the lower bars, and make some limiting straps, but aside from that it's done. I have high hopes that it won't come back out of the car.
You may remember that I was putting bag-overs on the front of this thing and it was an obscene amount of work. Well that's done too, and I've finally got the cross member in and everything bolted up. This should be final as well.
I also decided to change to 740 rotors for the front and an adaptor. This is in lieu of the redrill that I did, I got the pattern off center on one of the hubs. I'll try and find another set, but in the mean time this will work.
Note that I'm using the stock sway bar pick up points. They have been moved, but they are the same apart from that.
Given these developments today I was finally able to set the car back on the ground and roll it back and forth in the shop. I can't express how excited I was to see this:
Laid out it tucks about an inch of tire in the rear and almost all of it in the front. I think it could use a little more spacer in the front, but the offset in the rear is perfect with no spacer at all. This is sitting on bump stops too, if I didn't have them it could go at least a half inch lower all around.
Also note, I got a roof box for cheap. This will also help on the aforementioned trip this summer.
Here's a shot of the front cross member at the lowest ride height. It's...close
. But the car won't be driving when it's this low so it's all good. You can also see the air lines for the front bags, they'll be routed down the frame rails on each side.
Next up, trans rebuild, final clutch and engine install.
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