1969 Dart Pro touring daily driver **Crashed**
Next up it was time to fix the brakes. Both flexible hoses going from the car to the caliper were destroyed (no surprise) as well as one line on a caliper and the drivers side line going from the distribution block to the wheel well. I had never made brake lines before but luckily dads friend came to the rescue again, while at his place he also showed me a fun fact about how badly designed a Ford intake manifolds coolant passage is.
The drivers side mount where the brake lines go from hard to flexible needed to be fixed as well.
In photo #3 & #4 you can see that the upper control arm spindle hole is not perfectly centered, this unfortunately happened when I increased the hole size with the reamer, since the new upper control arms are so adjustable I should be able to adjust this out of existence. If I'm missing something or anyone thinks otherwise please let me know.
I was unlucky with shipping and didn't get the braided brake hoses or lower control arm ball joints in time for this trip so yet again the crashed ones have to go in for now yet again.
The brake booster and cylinder were also reinstalled, these are from a Volvo 240 from what I can tell. The shocks are from Ridetech with adjustable rebound which should be interesting to play around with the future.
Next up it was time to fix the brakes. Both flexible hoses going from the car to the caliper were destroyed (no surprise) as well as one line on a caliper and the drivers side line going from the distribution block to the wheel well. I had never made brake lines before but luckily dads friend came to the rescue again, while at his place he also showed me a fun fact about how badly designed a Ford intake manifolds coolant passage is.
The drivers side mount where the brake lines go from hard to flexible needed to be fixed as well.
In photo #3 & #4 you can see that the upper control arm spindle hole is not perfectly centered, this unfortunately happened when I increased the hole size with the reamer, since the new upper control arms are so adjustable I should be able to adjust this out of existence. If I'm missing something or anyone thinks otherwise please let me know.
I was unlucky with shipping and didn't get the braided brake hoses or lower control arm ball joints in time for this trip so yet again the crashed ones have to go in for now yet again.
The brake booster and cylinder were also reinstalled, these are from a Volvo 240 from what I can tell. The shocks are from Ridetech with adjustable rebound which should be interesting to play around with the future.