72 duster Build progress
UPDATE....a little bummed out.
got my brake lines all bent where I want them,filled with fluid......bled the front brakes off with no problem.
went to bleed the rears and no fluid and no pedal drop.....so I started hunting to see if there was a block in the brake line " T " at the rear axle or if the proportioning valve was not working correctly and all checked out....so I finally took my line off at the master cylinder to find that there is no fluid coming from the master cylinder for the rear brakes ......I just bought this thing from the parts store and its junk.
so I will return it and use the one I KNOW works that I picked up off of ebay that came with the brake pushrod I installed on the duster.
so tomorrow I should have the brakes done.
Plus side is, I found that I have the kelsey hayes 4 piston front disc brakes. and not only do I have an 8 3/4 rear end with 4.10 sure grip BUT its the 742 case and it has all new Russel stainless steel braided brake lines all around and I just now noticed that my springs have been relocated inward about 4 inchs (always wondered why my duster was able to fit such a large tire) (275/60/15 and still about 4 inchs from the back of the tire to the leaf spring of clearance left!)....it has bfg g force T/A drag radials on it now but there kind of hit so when I go to buy tires i may bump out a bit wider on the tire yet.
tossed in some pictures of the underside while I was at it lol My floors are rock solid other than some very MINOR surface flash rusting.....it came factory with 1/4" thick undercoating so it was pretty well protected.
UPDATE....a little bummed out.
got my brake lines all bent where I want them,filled with fluid......bled the front brakes off with no problem.
went to bleed the rears and no fluid and no pedal drop.....so I started hunting to see if there was a block in the brake line " T " at the rear axle or if the proportioning valve was not working correctly and all checked out....so I finally took my line off at the master cylinder to find that there is no fluid coming from the master cylinder for the rear brakes ......I just bought this thing from the parts store and its junk.
so I will return it and use the one I KNOW works that I picked up off of ebay that came with the brake pushrod I installed on the duster.
so tomorrow I should have the brakes done.
Plus side is, I found that I have the kelsey hayes 4 piston front disc brakes. and not only do I have an 8 3/4 rear end with 4.10 sure grip BUT its the 742 case and it has all new Russel stainless steel braided brake lines all around and I just now noticed that my springs have been relocated inward about 4 inchs (always wondered why my duster was able to fit such a large tire) (275/60/15 and still about 4 inchs from the back of the tire to the leaf spring of clearance left!)....it has bfg g force T/A drag radials on it now but there kind of hit so when I go to buy tires i may bump out a bit wider on the tire yet.
tossed in some pictures of the underside while I was at it lol My floors are rock solid other than some very MINOR surface flash rusting.....it came factory with 1/4" thick undercoating so it was pretty well protected.