The Brick, 1972 Dodge Dart Custom
Well, It's Saturday night and I am sore as hell. Spent 1 good and 1 bad day working on the Dart.
Day 1
Ran up to Dunbar springs Saturday morning to get the leaf springs repaired. Big fat no go. Springs are too rusty.....$350 he says. Out of my budget so I will order SS springs from Summit in 2 weeks. Then off to Discount to order my BFG TA Radials. Got the guy to beat Jegs price on them. Ended up paying $76 a tire for 205/70/14! Those will be in on Tuesday.
Grabbed Gene (65cuda) and we headed to Jim's to grab up the rear end and BBP wheels. Jim had a 8 1/4 for me that has 3.23 gears in it so scooped that up and headed to Joe's (nice flat driveway, with a car port to work in) Above is Gene and I setting up "shop".
Went to see if the donor rotors could be turned......Nope. I had mic'd them before, but failed to notice that one side of the rotors had more wear than the other. So to Autozone to track down the parts. Was lucky to not have to order any, as 2 stores really close by had the parts I needed. Get back to Joe's and start the tear down.
Lifted the front end and pulled the tires. Found that the Brick has 10" drums.....Gene is going to use the steering knuckles on his Cuda when we actually start working on it.
Here is Gene working on removing the drum setup on the passenger side.
If you are faint of heart, speed past the next pic. Found a big crack while working on the passenger side. Think we can fix it?
I will skip the normal details as there has been other posts about removing the drum brake setup.
Here is the empty wheel well.
We called it a night right there as it was pretty late and we were both pretty beat up.
Well, It's Saturday night and I am sore as hell. Spent 1 good and 1 bad day working on the Dart.
Day 1
Ran up to Dunbar springs Saturday morning to get the leaf springs repaired. Big fat no go. Springs are too rusty.....$350 he says. Out of my budget so I will order SS springs from Summit in 2 weeks. Then off to Discount to order my BFG TA Radials. Got the guy to beat Jegs price on them. Ended up paying $76 a tire for 205/70/14! Those will be in on Tuesday.
Grabbed Gene (65cuda) and we headed to Jim's to grab up the rear end and BBP wheels. Jim had a 8 1/4 for me that has 3.23 gears in it so scooped that up and headed to Joe's (nice flat driveway, with a car port to work in) Above is Gene and I setting up "shop".
Went to see if the donor rotors could be turned......Nope. I had mic'd them before, but failed to notice that one side of the rotors had more wear than the other. So to Autozone to track down the parts. Was lucky to not have to order any, as 2 stores really close by had the parts I needed. Get back to Joe's and start the tear down.
Lifted the front end and pulled the tires. Found that the Brick has 10" drums.....Gene is going to use the steering knuckles on his Cuda when we actually start working on it.
Here is Gene working on removing the drum setup on the passenger side.
If you are faint of heart, speed past the next pic. Found a big crack while working on the passenger side. Think we can fix it?
I will skip the normal details as there has been other posts about removing the drum brake setup.
Here is the empty wheel well.
We called it a night right there as it was pretty late and we were both pretty beat up.