72 Duster Resurrection
Life and weather finally started cooperating and I have made Duster progress.
Brakes
-Both of the front disk brakes are completely broken down and freshly turned for $15/ea at a local shop. Forgot pictures, more later.
-The rear drum brakes are now fully reassembled and waiting for wheels to go back on.
Suspension
I cooked the old LCA bushing rubber with a propane torch and scraped it out with a screwdriver until the pins came out. I lubed up the new poly bushings and pressed them in by hand. It was pretty painless. (thanks
@moparmat2000)
I gave the LCAs a quick wire brush and a coat of Rustoleum Pro Primer. I hope to fully disassemble the car and do everything for real with powdercoating when I get to the body and paint work. I'll just coat with black enamel gloss rattle can for now.
Ready for paint
Primed
Rustoleum Pro rattle can does not look half bad
I also installed new rubber UCA bump stops and one of my QA1 tubular UCA's.
Had a little clearance problem here. The car frame bracket was hitting the UCA, stopping it from having a full swing.
A little angle grinder work convinced it to see things my way
Thats it for now. Major things left:
-finish front suspension (UCAs, LCAs, Shocks, torsion bars, draglink, etc)
-attach all front brake lines
-fill and bleed brakes
-add wheels (tires may be shot)
-drive!
Im getting close, stay tuned for more soon.
-The Captain