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As part of the effort to get the Valiant back on the road, one of the projects was to stabilize the shifter. It was originally on the column, but a transmission swap to a later Torqueflite A904 (1971) required us (Bob Higgins [rest in peace, homie] and me) to install an aftermarket B&M...

ha it was actually a stroke of luck. i walked by my chain breaker a million times for a week and it never occurred to me to use it till today... but i probably did have to make that little ply press and have it break before i could think of it.. lol

So last week I bled the brakes. Don't have much pictures because, with exception of bleeding the master, was a messy job. Sorry but my camera's not going to go anywhere near dripping brake fluid. ^_^ Took some of the cunifer line I had left over, made two brake bleeding lines: Once I bled...

I kinda learned this the hard way. Normal 3/8 box end wrenches will round out a 3/8-24 flare nut. If you don't already have one, buy a 3/8 flare nut wrench. It grabs 5 out of 6 of the flat surfaces, vs the standard 2 surfaces. More grabby. When I finished the hard lines to the rear, I...

and here's the link to the info on cunifer in the 3/16 size http://store.fedhillusa.com/316475mmtubingandnuts.aspx

it's not pure copper lines - that would be too soft. this stuff is cunifer aka copper nickel lines, that can handle higher pressures of hydraulic systems. it's the stuff most european cars use - porsche, volvo, audi, etc, some racers know about it, and it's DOT approved. big advantage is that...

Thank you sir! Encouragement like this keeps me going. It's hard finding the motivation sometimes to work in the sun and the rain. :)

Short update. Finished fabbing up the front hard lines, and the front part of the rear line up to the proportioning valve. Put the KYB's in... Let down the car off the jack stands. First time it's been off the jack stands in over 6 months. In hindsight I should've cranked the torsion bar...

jesus h. christ that looks great!!!

Had to do errands today but when it was sunny for a brief period I put the calipers on. Feels like forever since I started this project. And it's finally coming together. I still need more line so in the meantime I'm starting on other stuff. Started prepping the carb today. More later.

yep it's cunifer... good stuff. you can make most of the bends by hand, but it looks a lot cleaner if you use a pipe or something with a radius on it.

Let down the back so I could get the front up higher... Today was a great day to work on the car. Sun was obscured by clouds, no rain - and it stayed like that ALL FRIGGIN DAY. WOOT So I went to work on the brake lines. I bought about 25 feet of 3/16 copper nickel brake line, thinking it would...

This weekend scored a set of 4 used 195/70R14s. Got them for less than a third of the retail price, and they still have 95% of their tread left. They cleaned up quite nicely. Just wanna thank Dave Hammock for giving me a ride out to Kaneohe to acquire this set. I'm starting to mock up the...

Do it yourself! It can be a pain, but it can also be a great joy too. I've learned so much doing my own drum to disc conversion, which required rebuilding my entire front end. I don't know if there's a kit per se, but you can get year/model front end rebuild kits which are all the bushings...

goddamn that looks good. very inspiring for my build as well. my rust is looking a lot less depressing.

Onto the master cylinder! I salvaged the old pushrod out of the single pot drum master, stretched new rubber grommet over the end of the pushrod and snapped it into place on the new piston. Incidentally, removing the old pushrod was a ***** - I ended up hacksawing and pliering (is that even a...

Torqued everything down. Greased up every zerk. The only thing I've left untorqued are the tie rods, as I'll need to adjust it a bit in order to be able to drive it down to the alignment shop. Started prepping the rotors - cleaned and regreased the races. Originally bought a set of Chinese-made...

those support bars are rad... hope they clear the engine block lol!

Haven't posted in awhile... Started work on reconditioning the rotors. They had about 40 years of oxidation and crust on them. Brought the rotary tool back and and gave it the same treatment as the drums.... And painted them... And back from O'Reilly's, drums and rotors freshly...

Small update. Decided to forgo all the Chinese crap from O'Reillys. I'm figuring that I only really want to do this suspension upgrade once, and not have high-stress areas catastrophically fail on me. Getting anything to Hawaii becomes a bit of a beast when it needs to be shipped, and luckily...

Modified my UCA bushing press design a little. Threaded 2 nuts closer to the middle of the threaded rod, and counter tightened / loosened them against each other to lock them in place. This prevents the nuts from loosening up. This time I reversed the wrenches. Adjustable on the "fixed" end...

nice patch panel work! how did you guys cut through the floor without damaging the subframe?

Awesome Dorian! You do anything new to it recently?

your flat bed hi lux is off the hook!

Looks like I have to press my bushing back out. Yikes. LOL

I'm by no means a real car mechanic. Some guys have built a ton of mopars and taken these cars completely apart and put em back together. The only real mechanical experience I've had is working in a nonprofit bicycle shop for kids in a low income neighborhood. Lots of our tools were homemade and...

Seconded. There's some threads where I think I can figure it out and there's threads like these where the skill level is so beyond where I'm at. Oh well, gotta start somewhere. At least you're giving us the bar to strive for!

Homemade UCA Bushing Press Sorry for the shitty pics, but I'm doing most of the work at night, after work, in very dim lighting. My camera sucks. Anyway, moving on. Last night when I pressed in the LCA bushings, I attempted to press in one side of the UCA bushings. I ran the threaded rod...

Homemade LCA Bushing Press Here's the parts. What you'll need: - 2 x 4 cut to 8" long, 2 pieces - 12" x 1/2" diam threaded rod, 2 pieces - Forstner, brad point or twist bits in 5/8" and 3/4" (If you have a bit that's a tad bit bigger than 3/4" like 7/8" or 13/16" that might work a bit...

Got all my front suspension crap laid out. My short term goal is to get the car rolling on the same kind of wheel / bolt pattern, and have some decent brakes to stop the car. Eventually I want Moog offset bushings for the uppers so I can still have good alignment with the car sitting a bit lower...