Informative day here.
Test fit the tub. It'll take some fighting later, but it fit roughly into place very well. Gotta get the last of the quarter grafted on with it in place and then i'll prep it for final install.
Secondly, took the trim off the left side. It appears the 1966 body...
So if the seats were changed out years ago, is he just lucky they put the original build sheet back in the “new” seats”?
Seems a little odd that they knew enough to save the “special” build sheet, but didn’t mind changing the seats.
Just wondering.
Once you narrow the axle housing and shorten the axle shafts, that pretty much is a "no return" situation. Rather than the option of "going back". Unless you want to change the rear axle to a normal one.
The OTHER situation is that the reverse offset wheels put more loads on the wheel...
Hmmm, let's let the market decide. As mentioned above, horses did not disappear overnight, there were electric cars in the early 20th century. Diesels did not become popular until the second half of 20th century and are still mostly relegated to heavy duty/industrial uses.
This whole "we are...
I thought about the rear skirts! One common practice here is to shorten the axels to allow for wheels with reverse offset that normally wouldn’t fit. There’s a shop in town that does it on the regular. Guess I’d have to find a cheap set and see if they’d work!
Those wheel covers came on Formals with 15x6 wheels, from the factory. I would be more concerned about them clearing the rear fender skirts on 15x6 factory wheels. But probably no more outward extension than the 15" disc brake wheel covers for 1968 Dodges, I suspect
Well cruising season is brewing here in Southern California. There’s been car shows almost every week here in Santa Maria!! Lots of beautiful cars, still no Mopars.
I did well and recently scored a set of disc brake hubcaps! While browsing Instagram I came across a Lowrider 77 New Yorker...
Okay so heat, cool it with penetrating oil. Don't wave the flame around when you break line loose. Common sense should prevail, or Darwinism will succeed.
All better alternatives than grinding the corners off with vise grips, then complaining that a TQ is a POS carburetor.
Just drive the damn thing.
Talk, talk, talk.
Drive it and adapt. It's a car, and your not setting out on a round the world voyage.
My Charger has a wrong sized piston in it. '66 block, '70 rotating assembly, as mentioned wrong size 80s replacement piston, 1976 #452 casting heads, a 318 pickup...
Put some heat on it. Tap around the flare nut.
Probably tightened by some flat rate gorilla, so you have to outsmart a guy who is probably pushing up daisies.