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I picked up my driveshaft Friday after work. It's a 3 1/2 inch with 1350 joints built at a local driveline shop. It should stand up to anything that I throw at it.

@VOETOM came over this morning and we were able to measure the run out on the bellhousing. It has .032 total run out, divided by two gets us .016. I ordered a set of .014 offset dowels from RobbMcPerformance Bellhousing Alignment Dowels to get the bellhousing back to within specs. While we were...

Happy Easter everyone! Got a busy weekend so not much getting done to the car, but I did manage to buy and assemble a HF transmission jack. I have been looking for a used one for a while now, but always seem to just miss out on them. I'll use this one once, and then probably list it for sale.

I was standing around yesterday admiring my work from the previous day and I remembered that I had the trunk light harness off of my old Dart. I don't know why I kept it, but it was one of the small things that I had added and I wanted to have it. Fifteen minutes later it was installed on the...

I would take that pic of your FIL and put it in the glove box of the car.

I plan on keeping these as my "street" tires. They are basically brand new and will be fine driving around this summer. When I go to my "strip" set up, I'll stuff the biggest sticky tire in there that I can.

The reason I installed the 1/2" offset kit was because I only had 5/16" clearance between the springs and my rear tires. I threw a tape measure on it today, and now I have 1 5/16" clearance?!?! I had completely forgotten that the 8.25 rear end was one inch narrower than the 8.75. I gained...

The rear end is back in the car and it's sitting on it's wheels and tires for the first time in four months! Today we installed the rear brake hose, bled and adjusted the brakes, and installed the park cables. New shocks and Dr. Diff axles went in without a hitch. Hopefully, we can move on...

I had a few friends swing by yesterday and we got a little work done on the Duster. I started the morning off by installing all new studs in the rear end housing as well as new axle seals. The third member went in next without a hitch, but when we went to install the new axles I remembered that...

It's a 1963 Dart 270 convertible. I don't want to hijack your thread. Here's a link to mine Going to Check Out a "Barn Find"

Nice work so far! This one has been sitting for twenty years. I'm trying to purchase it now. In the meantime I'm going to follow your progress. Good job!

I hope you took a bunch of pics?

Rani I'm not that far away? Just got to get past that huge wasteland that is KANSAS. lol My first car 50 years ago was a 318 three speed, and I've been driving this one for almost a year. Three speeds are fine for cruising around and even look like a four speed if you don't look at the knob...

It's 24 1/2" from the mounting surface to the end of the seal. Hope this helps

This is an A body 230 I’m trying to sell.

Go go Gary! I’ll be following along. Looks like a fun project

The perches have been moved in. Time for a little paint and then reassembly can begin.

@Jim Kueneman I am still working my way through your thread and just want to say what a beautiful job you did on this restoration. Hopefully, I'll be bringing home a similar car soon and will be using your build as a reference. Here is a link to the thread. Going to Check Out a "Barn Find"

Yeah, I just thought they were cool because they had the factory part number on them. This project will probably be my last and I don't want to pull these springs again.

A little more progress was made over the weekend. My buddy Gary came over and we finished removing the three speed trans along with the clutch and bell housing. Now that everything is out, I'll spend some time cleaning up the under side. I talked to the guy at the local spring shop and he...

No?!?! It has a Strange 60 built to mini tubbed A body specs with a brand new Eaton Tru Trac and 3.55 gears. Oh yeah, and disc brakes. I thought you knew that? Bonus! Those are ESPO +1" springs that have about 2k miles on them. I told Shawn to part it out and not sell it whole for scrap...

Tell me about it. I thought I had moved on until I saw these pictures. Yeah, most of that **** will buff out.

Progress was made this week. I ran the 8 3/4 housing out to my friend Monte's shop. He is a retired mechanic who still works on cars and does metal work. He is going to move the perches in for me. It should be ready by next week some time. Here is a shot of him and his hot rod BBQ that he built...

@DentalDart did you finally get Shawn nailed down to a date? I went to a bonfire at his house a while back and he was using the Dart as a work bench.

I wish! It sure would be handy.

So I went on a little road trip Saturday. There's a guy in southern Missouri that rebuilds four speeds out of his home shop. He had an 18 spline four speed that he was saving for his personal vehicle but then sold the car. It has all new bearings, seals and syncro rings. I was able to pick it up...

I enjoyed reading it, but if you're going to be writing short stories learn to use paragraphs.

The third member is all together. @VOETOM 's brother Joe assembled it and set up the gears for me. It still needs to be painted but EVERYTHING inside is brand new from Dr. Diff and should last the rest of my lifetime. The next step is getting my perches cut and moved in 1/2" for the...

Go man go! :popcorn:

My dentist (church friend) loves to talk to me with his fingers in my mouth? Start asking patients "So, you ever heard of Jack Wetwood?" Nice shop Justin!