Getting a '73 Swinger Back on the Road
Continuing on with the same theme, the brake booster had been replaced, but he left the leaky master cylinder. I had let it go initially, but now that the roof and floors were fixed and I was starting to drive the car to work out the bugs, it was time to take care of that.
I never cared for the looks of the rusty, oily iron style units, so I picked one up from the junkyard off of a 90’s Dakota. It was simple enough to make up an adapter plate
This is installed. The pedal effort is a bit less but I like the looks of these better and they're noticeably lighter, so that's a plus
I had been suspicious of the gas tank being rusty inside for a while, and anticipating changing my Slant 6 car over to fuel injection when I did the /6 -> V8 swap, I pulled the new looking tank from that car and put it in this one. Removing the old tank, it was surprising how clean the metal above the tank was
The old tank wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but it definitely had some rust inside, so it’s probably good I swapped it out
And again, it's from my Slant 6 car, which was painted orange, hence the color of the over-spray on it. You really don't notice it unless you look underneath, so it didn't bother me enough to do anything about
Continuing on with the same theme, the brake booster had been replaced, but he left the leaky master cylinder. I had let it go initially, but now that the roof and floors were fixed and I was starting to drive the car to work out the bugs, it was time to take care of that.
I never cared for the looks of the rusty, oily iron style units, so I picked one up from the junkyard off of a 90’s Dakota. It was simple enough to make up an adapter plate
This is installed. The pedal effort is a bit less but I like the looks of these better and they're noticeably lighter, so that's a plus
I had been suspicious of the gas tank being rusty inside for a while, and anticipating changing my Slant 6 car over to fuel injection when I did the /6 -> V8 swap, I pulled the new looking tank from that car and put it in this one. Removing the old tank, it was surprising how clean the metal above the tank was
The old tank wasn't as bad as I was expecting, but it definitely had some rust inside, so it’s probably good I swapped it out
And again, it's from my Slant 6 car, which was painted orange, hence the color of the over-spray on it. You really don't notice it unless you look underneath, so it didn't bother me enough to do anything about