1969 Dart Street/Strip (Re)Build

Not much to post as of late. I did finally get the Dart in to get it aligned. Drives straight as an arrow and brakes straight as an arrow too! The brakes are really starting to grab a lot better with a few miles on them. I still have ZERO PEDAL SHAKE which I'm very pleased and quite surprised at the same time. So apparently the Wilwood sales manager knew what he was talking about and the tech guy didn't.

The alignment guy had a heck of a time getting it aligned because the car wouldn't sit at the same ride height every time for some reason. He'd lift it, drop it, bounce it and every time, the car was at a different ride height. So it sounds like something is binding up or is really tight in the suspension. He thought it was the lower control arm bushings causing the problem and those are not greasable. Could be the lower ball joints but I'd really doubt it. I know it's not the UBJ's because if anything those were relatively loose feeling. The LBJ's were quit tight though which I think they should be. So I don't know what to do about that other than drive it and see if it loosens up.

When the car was on the lift, I saw what appears to be a problem that is getting inherently worse. There's oil everywhere. The headers are coated, the oil pan, the trans, exhaust, everything that I had polished, cleaned, and painted. This small oil leak has turned into a full blown BP oil crisis! I counted 9 drops of oil on the ground just pulling into my driveway last night so it's obvious that this is a pretty good leak. To truly fix the rear leak, I need to pull the transmission. Can't race the car because it will leave an oil slick and I don't want to drive the car any more than I have to with it leaking so bad and spewing oil all over the place. So what it's looking like now is a full blown tear down again with only about 7 miles on the new front end after alignment. I may or may not pull the engine too and get it on a run stand or I may just run it in the car without the trans and ensure the leaks are stopped before I get it all back together. Weather right now is hot hot hot. Nearly 100 degrees every day and 109 heat index. Humid as hell. Ugh. Not really great driving weather so I guess it's not a bad time to just tear it down again. I keep telling myself that one of these days I'll get to enjoy the car lol!