Slow, Driving Rustoration 1972 Dart
Slowly getting ready to put back together.
Everything on the suspension is fighting me. It took me 4 hours to get the right rear upper control arm bolt out. I broke the head off of my right torsion bar adjuster bolt. The left lower control arm bolt came out of the bushing with the inner bushing sleeve attached. Finally got the upper ball-joints out. I discovered that I am dumb, the 360 exhaust manifolds will not work on a 318. My first set of lower ball joints came in with two passenger side mounts due to mis-marked packaging.
The power steering gear is rebuilt. I "just" need to remove and replace the lower control arm bushings and install the upper control arm bushings, then I'll be ready to start reassembling everything. I have cleaned up and repainted the front suspension mounting area. I really want to drive again soon!
To top everything off I got a new phone and lost the SD card with all of the photos :( Here is the after picture of the suspension mounting area.
Slowly getting ready to put back together.
Everything on the suspension is fighting me. It took me 4 hours to get the right rear upper control arm bolt out. I broke the head off of my right torsion bar adjuster bolt. The left lower control arm bolt came out of the bushing with the inner bushing sleeve attached. Finally got the upper ball-joints out. I discovered that I am dumb, the 360 exhaust manifolds will not work on a 318. My first set of lower ball joints came in with two passenger side mounts due to mis-marked packaging.
The power steering gear is rebuilt. I "just" need to remove and replace the lower control arm bushings and install the upper control arm bushings, then I'll be ready to start reassembling everything. I have cleaned up and repainted the front suspension mounting area. I really want to drive again soon!
To top everything off I got a new phone and lost the SD card with all of the photos :( Here is the after picture of the suspension mounting area.
