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Okay...trying to do a KH 4 piston swap and all the bushings. When I installed the UCA's in what I thought was the original position the ball joint wasn't even close to the spindle. When I swapped it to the other side the ball joint lines up, but it's at a crazy angle and I'm 99% sure this ISN'T...

I trying to redo my front end. Why do I have one tie rod really extended and the other closed to make the spindles roughly straight? Getting the steering wheel straight is another subject...

Does anyone know the size and grade bolt I need for a 72 Valiant?

1972 Valiant with slant 6. Do I need to jack up the engine to replace idler arm? It looks like the bolt will not clear oil pump otherwise

I am wondering if the little notches on the upper control arm bushings need to installed in a specific manner. I can't see any reason why it should, but I thought I would check it our prior to installing them.

Okay...I was in the process of KH SBP disc change over on my 72 Valiant, and decided to redo ball joints, bushings, ect. for the sake of safety. I have found what appears to be repairs to the K frame. The tab for the idler arm looks as if it was broken and welded. It seems strong enough, but I'm...

Intuition tells me that manual steering would have less chance of failure. What would need to be changed to switch from power to manual? Is my thought process completely screwed up here?

Is there a trick to get these out? If so, what is it? I'm having what sems to be a disproportionally hard time...

I think everyone has convinced me to do all the UCA, LCA and strut bushings...so where/who has the best quality/price ratio?

:?:?Working on disc brake swap-over on my 72 Valiant...now that stuff is opened up I'm considering control arm bushings too. The car will just be for driving, cruise nights, having fun....not doing a restoration or performance build. So...how much of a can of worms am I opening? I already don't...

Can anyone clue me in on what it takes to put an A100 front axle under a '72 Valiant?

I want to improve my brakes, but I'm limited in skills, $$$, and would like to keep my 5 x4 bolt pattern. To replace my 9" drums w/ 10" drums on my '72 Valiant do the upper control arms and/or ball joints need to be replaced? For that matter, the lower ones too. I've asked a couple people and...

I just found rust damage where the passenger side torsion bar passes through the sub-frame. The front + rear vertical sections of the box are still there and relatively intact. The entire "floor" of the box is so completly gone it looks like it was never there. So there are some things even I...