racerbob
Well-Known Member
Finally cleared out enough space in the garage to get the Dart sport off of the trailer and inside.
I have been racing the Dart sport with an earlier SBP 8.75" rear in it since it was in the car when I got it! Since the car came with BBP front disc brakes (the front track was a bit wider than the rear track), I decided I would replace the A-body rear with an early B-body unit. I found a nice one from a 1965 satellite in great shape for a decent price $200 for drum to drum rear from a restored car with a set of brand new green bearings included (just not installed yet). The rear came with good condition usable brakes which the PO had removed and boxed up to keep all of the parts in order. Rear even had replacement brake lines and hose on it!!
My car has MP SS springs with Competion Engineering shocks and a MP pinion snubber on it presently. I plan on retaining all of that stuff as well as relocate the springs with the offset hangers and shackles. I decided to go that route since I was already going to weld on new spring mounts on the rear housing and the rest of the set up was bolt-on. My car is a real '73 340 ("H" code) car and do not want to cut it up to do a mini-tub or any other permanent modifications. From the preliminary measurements I have made these mods will allow me to use 10" slicks with no fender surgery.
So far I have torn down the rear axle assembly:
Removed the brake backing plates
Removed the Axles
Removed the 741 light duty third member
I have also removed the stock bearings and lug studs from the axles and installed the green bearings and the 3" long High Strength Steel lug studs.
I will post some pictures of my progress soon.
Bob
I have been racing the Dart sport with an earlier SBP 8.75" rear in it since it was in the car when I got it! Since the car came with BBP front disc brakes (the front track was a bit wider than the rear track), I decided I would replace the A-body rear with an early B-body unit. I found a nice one from a 1965 satellite in great shape for a decent price $200 for drum to drum rear from a restored car with a set of brand new green bearings included (just not installed yet). The rear came with good condition usable brakes which the PO had removed and boxed up to keep all of the parts in order. Rear even had replacement brake lines and hose on it!!
My car has MP SS springs with Competion Engineering shocks and a MP pinion snubber on it presently. I plan on retaining all of that stuff as well as relocate the springs with the offset hangers and shackles. I decided to go that route since I was already going to weld on new spring mounts on the rear housing and the rest of the set up was bolt-on. My car is a real '73 340 ("H" code) car and do not want to cut it up to do a mini-tub or any other permanent modifications. From the preliminary measurements I have made these mods will allow me to use 10" slicks with no fender surgery.
So far I have torn down the rear axle assembly:
Removed the brake backing plates
Removed the Axles
Removed the 741 light duty third member
I have also removed the stock bearings and lug studs from the axles and installed the green bearings and the 3" long High Strength Steel lug studs.
I will post some pictures of my progress soon.
Bob