Toluene Dart - '73 swinger
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Thanks. She'll be running soon. Just need to get the little stuff back together, I have a line on a complete ford 9" with disc brakes out of an early mustang for a killer price.
Made some seat brackets and finished wiring the Alternator/regulator and battery relocation.
Made some seat brackets and finished wiring the Alternator/regulator and battery relocation.
73 Swinger 8
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Read this from beginning. This is a great build! Love the look and sound. I'm subscribed!
03JeepJeep
It's a hoot!
Awesome build! How you like the 8 3/4
The housing and axles showed up today. So now i'm ripping the old pos with crappy gears out and putting this one in with the disc brakes. I have a 489 chunk with 3.23's that I can use till I find another one with the gears I want.
Caliper brackets didn't exactly fit the calipers that were with the kit. But what do you expect from a cheapo brake kit. A little grinding and they line up.
Caliper was hitting on the lower portion of the bracket -
grind a little off -
and everything fits.
Drive shaft is SOOO close to fitting. At least they only need to shorten it a little bit. I also need to figure out what backspacing to use, the old wheels are 4" but a quick mock up with out the caliper shows them being a bit too tight on the outside. May have to run 4.5/5.0" Backspace if I want to fit 245's or 255's.
Caliper was hitting on the lower portion of the bracket -
grind a little off -
Drive shaft is SOOO close to fitting. At least they only need to shorten it a little bit. I also need to figure out what backspacing to use, the old wheels are 4" but a quick mock up with out the caliper shows them being a bit too tight on the outside. May have to run 4.5/5.0" Backspace if I want to fit 245's or 255's.
Interesting shock plates...what's the story on those?
they are some universal 3" housing plates, didn't have 8 3/4 stock plates and the price tag on the ones I had seen were a bit outrageous. So I tried these out, so far they fit and everything is close.
Speedway Leaf Spring Lower Shock Mounting Plate
purplehazenils
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Great project I dig the cars stance.
Welp... The engine has been running funny for a while. Could never get it to run quite right and there was the odd vibration at lower rpms. I decided to yank the 360 and take a gander inside to see if there were any major problems (aside from the blowby I didn't like).
After some inspection of the crank and rod bearings, looks like something made it's way through the oil system. hard enough to score the bearings but not score the crank
. Still spin by hand just fine too, but I won't put it back together like that. So engine was shipped off to the machine shop.
It has been almost a month since the block was dropped off. Still no word. But in the mean time I guess I can fix my fuel system and get stuff ready.
After some inspection of the crank and rod bearings, looks like something made it's way through the oil system. hard enough to score the bearings but not score the crank
. Still spin by hand just fine too, but I won't put it back together like that. So engine was shipped off to the machine shop.It has been almost a month since the block was dropped off. Still no word. But in the mean time I guess I can fix my fuel system and get stuff ready.
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