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So this past holiday weekend I got some time to work on the brakes. I replaced both front wheel cylinders, brake pads and installed new adjuster kits. I adjusted the brakes and took it for a ride. They were better but not great. Towards the end of the drive once I came to a complete stop at...

So I made some time last night to look into the charger and found a couple interesting things. First off, like I vaguely remember, the adjusting lever was not contacting the star on the adjuster. I am chalking this up to mismatched parts from the original components mixed with todays revised...

Interesting... There is nothing like that in the 70 Service manual. I guess if I ever take off the master cylinder Ill take that measurement Oh God... I didnt even think of that... I guess that would be very easy to determine if I am taking the drums off anyway. Thanks for the idea.

I am not to sure on the wheel cylinder sizes. I guess I can try to measure those. But I know the master cylinder is the 1" bore like the FSM states it should have. It is drum drum master cylinder, but I did not remove any residual valves. I looked through the brake section in the 70 charger...

This past weekend I made it back home to do some driving! Well rain on saturday turned that day into a work day so to fill the time I installed the wheel lip moldings. It does really help balance the look of the car. I did look a little bit at the alignment and noticed that my lower control...

So when I installed the booster a year or two ago I did. I may have done it last year as well (have to look at the maintenance log). When thinking in the shower this morning I thought the easiest place to start was at all the wheels to see where they are adjusted at, remove drums and wheels to...

So the car in question is a 70 charger. It has 10" drums all around that were rebuilt with new springs and cylinders a couple years about (about 1500 miles ago), new hard and soft lines, new master cylinder, with a repro disk brake booster. I bled all the air out of the lines and verified that...

I have just put a 2.94 gear set in my 68 dart convertible with the 225 slant six. I just had 2.76's in it last summer. Now I also changed some ignition stuff and only had the car out once so far due to all this rain. But on high ways and hills (which is what I drive to work) I really didnt...

This past weekend I went home and finally got some wheel time on the car. DAMN, does it drive nice! it is about time that I can actually drive it and not worry about over heating or engine issues. The alternator had some bad diodes in it so I got them replaced and now the car is charging, but...

From what I read people didnt need to modify the firewall. it is just in my case the drivers side manifold did hit the fire wall. Now, that could be because I was using a 67 big block K member which could be different than the 68-69 K members or normal factory tolerances or the casting number...

So I found this: Bucket seat tracks 68-69 seat frames between A and B are the same. So there is a possibility the 6-way could bolt up to the seat frame. However that same post says that the seat tracks are different between A & B, but doesnt say what is different... So there is a shot...

With those b bodies manifolds it is a TIGHT fit. I ran them when I broke in the 383 in my dart (it’s an original big block car). They hit the firewall. Everything you said can be done to swap in a big block. You didn’t mention if your car was column shifted or had a console. There is more...

Hello everyone, So as I am suppose to be getting ready for work my mind went down yet another rabbit hole: I may have access to getting a reproduction 69 b body 6-way manual seat track and was wondering if it would not only bolt up to a 67 dart bucket seat, but if it would bolt to the...

This past weekend I needed the jack stands that held up the GTS to lift the Packard up so I could change the front wheel bearings. before I set the GTS on the ground I was able to install the Z bar. That was a pain in the ***. But it fits better now and the operation is a lot smoother! I...

Well I was able to get a little time in on the GTS while home. One issue that has been there since the start is the interference of the Z bar and the headers. Never really took the time to fix it since I could never get the car to run right and the steering was always a pain. Well I had the...