69 Notch Barracuda - Rebirth

Starting back in on the car, now that I can spend some time in the garage without getting intensely angered by the cold ;)

I’m always getting distracted by shiny things, flirting with the idea of spending the $ I’ve saved on grand parts schemes like a complete suspension and brake upgrade.... then, luckily, I always fall back to my main strategy of getting the car on the road in the short term.

So, I’m starting in on the brakes, trying to restore all of the things I can inside of the engine compartment before the engine goes in.

I’ve cleaned up the front calipers, ordered replacement pistons, seals, pads, and misc parts.

I’ve got a good start on building my own brake lines. Though it’s a great feeling to know exactly how all of this is done, and to know that I did it myself, I’m not getting any younger, and this process takes a lot of time. So if I were to do this again, I would probably buy a complete kit from inlinetube, or the like (I may still... I haven’t spent all that much yet). What I’ve learned from this process is that you spend nearly as much as the entire kit costs. Luckily my nephew, who’s been a train mechanic, and Now works on big rigs, had a hydraulic Matco line flaring tool that I could borrow. The $18 flaring tool that I bought was absolute junk.