The Other 68 Dart Resto Project
OK, since you asked, here are some more boring pictures:
Here are my wheelwell lips, trimmed down, still need to be spot welded and filled with seam sealer, but now I have about 5/8" clearance between the sidewall and the lip. I will probably hit them with my D/A and some 80 grit to smooth them out.
Here are my **** welds, I welded up about 13 holes, I only have about 50 more to go. Hopefully my welds will get better.
Here is the completed rearend, all done and ready to go. Now all I need is a 3.23 sure-grip to finish it off. Don't worry the crappy exhaust will be replaced soon, I am just keeping it so I can drive the car a little. As soon as the 383 goes in, its gone.
Here is how much clearance I have, I have about 5/8" from the sidewall to the outer lip. I have about 1" from the inside wheel well to the sidewall, I have about 1/2" from the sidewall to the spring. I'm sure that if I move the springs in 3/4" with relocation brackets and pick my backspacing very carefully, I can easily get 275/50 or 60 in there.
Here is what my front brakes looked like AFTER I cleaned out all the cobwebs, spider webs, and dessicated bug carcasses. Overall everything looked good, all the bushing in the suspension are solid, no slop, so I am going to wait to rebuild the suspension until maybe next winter. The spindles were pefect, no scoring, and the bearing are re-usable, the rotors however are junk, they are straight, but whoever last turned them took them down to the minimum, .94", so now they are junk. Oh well, I can get new rotors for $76 a pair. I am replacing the front lines with RMS braided stainless. I have new calipers for the front. I also drained all the old brake fluid outof the system, I flushed about a pint of fluid for the rear half, I might do even more in the front. I was shocked at how dark the old fluid was, and how much setiment there was in the bottom of my dump can when I was done. More to come.
OK, since you asked, here are some more boring pictures:
Here are my wheelwell lips, trimmed down, still need to be spot welded and filled with seam sealer, but now I have about 5/8" clearance between the sidewall and the lip. I will probably hit them with my D/A and some 80 grit to smooth them out.
Here are my **** welds, I welded up about 13 holes, I only have about 50 more to go. Hopefully my welds will get better.
Here is the completed rearend, all done and ready to go. Now all I need is a 3.23 sure-grip to finish it off. Don't worry the crappy exhaust will be replaced soon, I am just keeping it so I can drive the car a little. As soon as the 383 goes in, its gone.
Here is how much clearance I have, I have about 5/8" from the sidewall to the outer lip. I have about 1" from the inside wheel well to the sidewall, I have about 1/2" from the sidewall to the spring. I'm sure that if I move the springs in 3/4" with relocation brackets and pick my backspacing very carefully, I can easily get 275/50 or 60 in there.
Here is what my front brakes looked like AFTER I cleaned out all the cobwebs, spider webs, and dessicated bug carcasses. Overall everything looked good, all the bushing in the suspension are solid, no slop, so I am going to wait to rebuild the suspension until maybe next winter. The spindles were pefect, no scoring, and the bearing are re-usable, the rotors however are junk, they are straight, but whoever last turned them took them down to the minimum, .94", so now they are junk. Oh well, I can get new rotors for $76 a pair. I am replacing the front lines with RMS braided stainless. I have new calipers for the front. I also drained all the old brake fluid outof the system, I flushed about a pint of fluid for the rear half, I might do even more in the front. I was shocked at how dark the old fluid was, and how much setiment there was in the bottom of my dump can when I was done. More to come.
