1967 k member upgrades (idler)

autoxcuda said
That “71” KMember you have is a 72 crossover piece. I’ve seen them in 72 model year cars. You sure what year car it came out of?

It has the flat biscuit motor mounts they ran in Abodies until the end of the 1972 model year. BUT it has the lower section of the 73 kmember that has the pass thru sway bar.

With that Kmember you could use the 67-72 wide sway bar OR run the 73-76 sway bar. You have to run the corresponding 67-72 or 73-76 LCA w/sway bar tabs. Or fab mounts in corresponding locations.

The 73-76 member allows you to run high backspacing wide front rims. And it doesn’t hang in front of the Kmember and low that gets hit on curbs and low bumps.

Nice piece! The front lip is not bent and bottom not gouge and smashed up. That tow hook rip in it is no big deal.

Not a bad place to put a strengthening/skid/jack plate. Just don’t encroach any of the opening. You need all the opening to thread in the sway bar. Especially thick ones.

I saw the frame of the car when I purchased the k memeber and it was a demon but i never looked at the VIN or year it was manufactured. The man I purchased that k member from stated it came from a V-8 ‘71 demon. I went to purchased that day an 8 3/4” axle and on a whim purchased the k memeber with the attached lower control arms and sway bar. The intention of the impulse purchase of the k memeber assembly was to use the lower control arms and sway bar. I later found out the improved design for the idler arm is an unplanned bonus.

The sway bar I believe is the 67-72 style that mounts to the front of the k memeber. The brackets that held the sway bar bushings had hit one to many parking curbs. They were deformed to a point where they can’t hold poly urqthane bushings. I have purchased aftermarket sway bar bushings. I was going to drill the ‘67 k memeber to add them until I made the decision to use the k memeber in question.

I have reworked the Lower control arms and added my one DIY stiffing plates. After reading the link you posted on mopardude318’s 2010-2016 posts it confirms I have lower control arm sway bar brackets that are in the ‘67-‘72 location. I’m running 14” inch diameter Keystone Classics wheel with 235/60R14. Mopardude318 was running 17” with 4” backspacing. Do you think I will have clearance issues with my current tire/rims combo?

I will update this thread with the welding and stuffing plates that are planned for the next two weekends.

My car is a 1967 Barracuda that came with a worn out 273 car with disk brakes and auto tranny. When I’m done it will have a 418 stroker 340, fuel injection, sub frame connectors and 4 speed auto transmission. All of this work will take me some time to complete. I love this site and I want to give back to everyone that has impacted
My build. I will post my success and failure for the benifit of all. Thanks for all of the great advise.