Recent content by Wvbuzzmaster

The reason the bushings don’t align is the tubes are turned and welded to the ball joint end crooked and that makes the geometry of this arm different than the other. I know it bolts on to the car with two bolts, but their other arm is flat and the bushings align perfectly, so if that’s not...

I never said I wasn’t willing to return the part, the issue is they don’t care about making it right for the customer. If I want a replacement I am to wait for them to have another production run in a few months, forget the fact they made it wrong. And any time I tried to explain to them it...

Nope, that’s the company I will probably go with instead though.

The A arm in question.

Manufacturer in the pacific NW.

Purchased brand new tubular upper A arms for my Duster from a reputable company and one is welded incorrectly to where the bushings do not align with each other by a noticeable amount. A half inch rod thru bushing one hits bushing two 3/4” off the center of the hole. Called the company and...

I am also running an E-body sport steering wheel on a tuff wheel hub in my 72 Duster. I had the tuff wheel in there first, but with 16:1 manual steering that extra diameter on the E body steer wheel is nice. Another bonus is a lot better view of the gauges than tuff wheel especially in a turn...

That spring is never going to work, that shackle is too far from ever being vertical that you are correct, it will try to pop back against the body if it gets a chance. When the car is lifted and suspension is in droop the shackle should do no more than align with the spring. Did you buy those...

It took me 3 years to fully repair/restore my 1972 Duster including all summer to sort out the rest of the inconsistencies during drives. I did not touch body work at all, just everything else! Lol On my Duster, that was an argument on why it was a good decision to buy a car that had a wiring...

The real problem isn’t the actual building, it’s the making everything fit together from original parts, to reproduction parts, to aftermarket upgrade components, and including the dreaded “universal fit” parts lol. Forget if you start with a car that was worked over, now you add in the “This...

I went thru this on my 1972 Duster. I ended up piecing it together from what was in the car already pieced together and B body bucket seat belt set. What I learned was A body front seat belt retractors are specific to A body, B body does not fit around the seats. The rest of the B body seat...

Oh, one thing to add is my oil pressure on a fairly freshly rebuilt 340 engine is 50-60 psi parked running and then 40 psi running down the road most times and if engine is pulled down by transmission when on the brakes after warmed up on a hot day and running 3800 rpm on the highway, 20 psi...

First thing I would do is a full brake job as that could reveal a scraping noise such as thrown pad lining, broken spring flopping around in the drum, or even the hubs actual cap having fallen off the hub and rattling around in the wheel hubcap. Second, check suspension bushings and ball...

I like the sometimes wider availability of the larger wheel size tires, but the short sidewalls aren’t for me either, and not in West Virginia, with sometimes rough roads and potholes. My 2016 Ram 1500 came with 20” rim stock and I went with a Load range E oversized from factory sized Load...

These will fit Duster, Demon, Dart Sports when installing bucket seats. Will probably fit other A body’s when installing bucket seats but those for sure.