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I have factory style strut rod bushings in kframe and I tighten nuts down after torsion bars are in. But LCA nuts leave loose until engine in, ride height set, and car down on all 4 wheels then I tighten LCA pivot nuts.

Oh and Bergman coupler uses a set screw vs a roll pin. So no more pounding pin in and out to remove coupler from steering box. Back set screw out pull coupler off steering box easy peasy pain free.

Bergman Auto Craft sells a Borgeson coupler that attaches to column like a stock coupler. So your steering shaft doesn't need to be modified. I went from manual to power and just slid the shaft in to reduce length. Zero mods to anything on the car none.

Rotate up and tweak the bend in the tube?

You doing patches or full one piece floor?

My car was special ordered by original owner as manual steering and when I bought it from him in '79 that was on the all stock all original car. So yes factory 16:1 manual steering box now sitting on garage floor cause swapped to PS.....

I rebuilt my original 16:1 manual box 15 years or so back and I remember it having all bearings no bushings.

When Hoosier Garage, youtube, repaired front rails on his Duster he said somewhere early '70s upper control arm mounts got a reinforcement. But I think geometry is same. Front bumper mounts prob diff on later cars but cutting welding can get around that problem. Overall I think they...

Some guy on here few years back bought a blue '69 340 4 spd fastback that was hit hard in front and sat for decades. He got an entire donor front clip, both frame rails, inner fenders, rad support, torsion bar cross member and swapped it in as one piece. Guy was a body shop tech as his day...

Clean and paint arms, new bushings, new ball joints, wrench it back together then post up pictures. Badda boom badda bing done get pats on the back....

He said he looking forward to seeing car get put back together and he is confident you'll do a good job.

He not a bully just commenting dont worry about it. Guy knows a lot so definitely someone whose advice is valuable.

Cut a slit in shell then collapsed to crush it in then it will fall out easily.

I don't see nothing bent in pictures? Not sure which side is suspected to be bent? So guess put it together, see if bushing fits in frame correctly, see if it aligns?

PB Blaster on nut, heat nut with heat gun, hold pin at rear with vice grips

In this one guy makes a nice jig: 68-76 idler arm mount locator

Yeah that crashed Dart thread thats it, thats the one I saw thanks.

Some guy on here recently converted a '67 idler mount to a '68 and up style mount. Pictures were posted up etc. K frame was out of the car. I dont recall where it was but recently on here. If it were my car I would swap a later k frame in there my 2 cents. Easier to get parts, stronger, be...

Little off topic but in case you dont know those biscuit mounts break really easy then fan smacks fan shroud air cleaner hits hood ect. I run Schumaker Torque Strap on mine but used a chain decades back that worked too.

Usually the header clearance problems are with big blocks based on research I have done. I wasn't able to find ppl complaining about Borgeson hitting small block headers.

I bought a Borgeson kit from Bergman Auto Craft. I have stock k frame, stock motor mounts, TTI step headers. The Borgeson box clears headers no dents needed. I do have motor mount shims, two on drivers side, one on pass side. Shims were put on years back to get engine in correct location so...

I put new bearings seals in my original manual 16:1 box many years ago. Zero slop on center none. But I am a grandpa now converting my car to Borgeson PS and putting AC back in so when I drive to grocery store its nice and comfy.

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Have you sent a PM to user bergmanautocraft ? When I sent him a PM he got back to me that day.

There are U Bolts that go around the axle housing and through the shock plate to hold axle to leaf springs. Then there are U Bolts on some pinion flanges to hold ujoints to the flange. We are talking about U Bolts that hold axle to leaf spring right? Also Loctite is not Loctite. We have...

I run ESPO springs stock height reproduction of the stock 340 springs. No wheel hop they work well. I also have a 489 case 391 gears, 29 spline on pinion shaft, Auburn Pro Cone Sure Grip (back before clutch type was reproduced) It had 7290 ujoints but swapped to 1350 yoke few weeks back. My...

For cars with collapsible columns those work. But some years early As, the earlier ones, dont collapse. So have to either cut shaft OR swap to a column that collapses.

I think the later early As have collapsible columns. Peter from Bergman would know. The universal joint couplers will work but you would have to cut your shaft.

Manual shaft is longer but its a collapsible for crash impacts. So just slide it in use Bergman coupler so no mods to the manual shaft. That how the shaft is on my '69. Early As some of those might not be collapsible.

I am ordering a complete kit to convert manual to power steering so Bergman is supplying PS pump, PS bracket along with PS box hoses etc. Bergman says an obsolete pulley is needed for his PS pump in order to line up with my original '69 pulleys. My car is original AC manual steering car so...