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
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Primed
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Rustoleum Pro rattle can does not look half bad

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I also installed new rubber UCA bump stops and one of my QA1 tubular UCA's.

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Had a little clearance problem here. The car frame bracket was hitting the UCA, stopping it from having a full swing.

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A little angle grinder work convinced it to see things my way
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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