Recent content by dartley

If you had no headlights or dome light that has nothing to do with your ignition or ignition system. There is something wrong with your battery or wiring. If you try to jump start the car and you get the same result then your wiring is faulty.

I never said that the coil over systems won't hold up. I said that the cars were not designed for them. I also said that if 'I' were to use one, I would look to implement added structure to the car - exactly what I don't now know, because I have no intention of doing such a thing and so have not...

Okay, so you agree with me completely not. Got it. What you are really saying, probably without realizing it, is that a brand new coil over - without adding any structural additions to the front end - is superior to doing nothing to a 40+ year old car. Okay, I can 'agree' with that. Of course...

Surely, if you drive it hard anyway. But it is a question of how much more stress. The rear anchoring points for the T-bars are a well known area of stress and are prone to rust. But they are better engineered to take stress than the front end is.

Nope not what I'm saying. 1. The cars were made for T-bars. 2. They might be okay with coil overs, then again they might no over the long haul; 3. Any car that is that old (read: used) is not like a new car; 4. especially if it is driven hard; 5. I was advising the OP, not someone who is not...

All the more reason not to add more stress to it. Race cars are designed differently than jeeps, than pickup trucks, than street sedans. If you want to make something something that it was not designed to do, you have to do the homework.

Yeah you must live in NY, NJ or CA ... like I do.

Well, a competent engineer would really have to weigh in to provide details on stresses and loads, metal fatigue details and all kinds of other things. You can be that they did this at the factory at the time. They might well have built into the unibody enough added strength. But without knowing...

Yeah, well, that's the kind of thing I was referring to; but exactly what to do I have no clue, other than to look at the cars set up for rallies and other types of racing, and speak with those who have set them up. If I were ever thinking of doing such a thing I'd do a lot of homework on it first.

The Mopar front suspension was designed as part of the unibody package of the Mopar. It places a lot of the stress under the firewall area, away from the front end. Whether the front end can withstand the added stresses of having all the duty of supporting the front half of the car is a question...

Oh, okay.

Pete, That is interesting. I've tried to find out what vehicles, such as Corvettes or the newer Chrysler RRD vehicles use in the rear - as opposed to 6-cylinder 1964 Falcons - and just could not obtain definitive data. If you know that these newer cars use sealed BALL bearings, then that is...

Thanks.

I'm not sure I follow you. I know you're being sarcastic, but it's difficult to read without proper punctuation. Are you saying that Rick E. started this debate? He didn't, he just made his thoughts known on the subject. I'm not his lawyer, but I think he's allowed to do that. I don't think that...

Do you think it would be wise for me to upgrade from the older type to the newer type of 'green' bearings? And can you tell me what would need to change - if anything?