Recent content by kourgath

yeah bled the master cylinder first, dismounted the calipers last night and bled them with the bleeder valve up and got a lot of air out of them, now i have a nice solid pedal. just goes to show that i could have saved a whole lot of effort and frustration with the correct parts.

well found out what the problem is, the front brakes bleeder valves are lower than the piston and intake port. meaning i have to dismount them and use a vacuum bleeder to get the air out of the front pistons. now if i could only get a proper seal on those damned bleeder valves...

ok heres an update after the winter freeze and thaw :) replaced the suspension except for the torsion bars and rear leaf springs (those are up soon.) replaced the front calipers as both bleeder screws broke off when I went to remove them. Now for the issues, After replacing the front calipers...

not sure if I need spindles yet, haven't taken the bearings out to check. I know the ball joints and most of the rubber in the suspension is toast as well as the idler arm. had the alignment checked this afternoon and somehow the guy who had this car before me had 10 degrees of positive camber...

thanks much, how about spindle and bearings?

ok here's some I just took of the passenger side

ok here's what i'm up against. bought a 63 dart in pretty good condition. needs new bushings all around, idler arm, ball joints and bearings for the front wheels. the problem is it's been modified for disk breaks on the front so I don't know what has been changed from stock for the ordering of...

ugh got under her today and pulled the block out of the leaf springs, went to tighten the torsion bars and noticed the ends were labeled R on the driver side and L on the passenger side. on top of this all the rubber in the LCA is rotted out. looks like more work to get this suspension right...

it's got some rusty spots, no head liner, no carpet and ride height is too low (keeps bottoming out) but nothing a little tlc and effort won't fix. think I got a good deal at $1800

hehe the wife hates the moon caps, I could go either way... maybe paint em flat black for now to appease her

as you can see this one is lower than hell, i'm only hoping the guy who lowered it used the torsion bar method and not the 2" spindle drop. back end has the blocks on the leaf springs so that'll be easy enough to rectify.

Hey there folks, just picked up a new old car yesterday. a 63 dodge dart with the 225 slant 6. don't know enough about the 63 to tell if it's a gt or not. but the car runs like a champ quiet as a kitten and hits 100 easy enough on the freeway. has a 4 speed manual tranny of unknown make. but...