Not Fast, just "Less Slow"

Things are changing in my life and I'm in a position where I had to move. The Valiant is still in the same garage temporarily but I need to get the wheels/tires on it (as a minimum) so I can get it on a trailer and get it here where I can work on it easily.

Anyway, before moving 2-1/2 weeks ago I put the 7-1/4 rear back in the car. I cleaned the rear springs and painted them, powder coated the front spring brackets, rear shackles, and spring plates. I have a receipt for rear spring work on this car from 1981 or 82 and it looks like a couple leafs were replaced and maybe one extra per side was added. I'll have to see how the car rides before passing judgement but they'll do for now. Same with the shocks which look like old blue Monroes.

I ended up replacing EVERY brake line in the car, something I didn't foresee which took up a LOT of time. But once done I won't have to worry about things. I didn't buy a pre-bent kit but made them all starting with two 25' rolls of 3/16" tubing. I didn't look for the brake line armor but if I had found it available in bulk I would have used it.

Luckily the long front to rear line was good enough to use as a pattern except for the rear fitting area which of course twisted off because of the rust. The hard line feeding the tee on the axle has since been terminated but the picture is from before that was done. The lines on the rear axle had been replaced sometime in its previous line as was the left-to-right firewall one so I kinda did those from memory. I don't have pictures of everything yet. I replaced the single pot master cylinder with one for a 67 A-body drum brake car. The 9" drum brakes are what this car will hit the road with but I consider that a temporary thing. Discs are in the future.