68 GT convertible project
I ordered front brakes a couple weeks ago. Everything finally arrived this past weekend. The calipers are a little tricky to install. The 13" kit uses pretty thick rotors. Even with the pistons all the way in, there isn't much extra room between the pads. Everything went together though. Before I assemble the brakes for the final time, I'll paint the center of the rotors black so there isn't so much zinc showing.
It looks like I'm going to have a little clearance issue with the front ball joint bolts. The bolts stick out and hit the earlier style sway bar tabs on the lower control arms. I don't have the tie rods/center link hooked up yet but it doesn't look like the spindle turns much before making contact. I'll have to check everything with the steering hooked up. At the very least I'll have to trim the bolt. If it's really bad, I might have to look for a thinner nut.
I ordered front brakes a couple weeks ago. Everything finally arrived this past weekend. The calipers are a little tricky to install. The 13" kit uses pretty thick rotors. Even with the pistons all the way in, there isn't much extra room between the pads. Everything went together though. Before I assemble the brakes for the final time, I'll paint the center of the rotors black so there isn't so much zinc showing.
It looks like I'm going to have a little clearance issue with the front ball joint bolts. The bolts stick out and hit the earlier style sway bar tabs on the lower control arms. I don't have the tie rods/center link hooked up yet but it doesn't look like the spindle turns much before making contact. I'll have to check everything with the steering hooked up. At the very least I'll have to trim the bolt. If it's really bad, I might have to look for a thinner nut.
