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Greetings C Body Moparians! Autumn is my favorite season for automotive projects! With Gertrude's 4th Anniversary with us just past, I'm seriously shopping for the best tires we can find for her for the best $. I found a couple or 3 yrs ago a SWEET deal on 5 16 slot Rally Rims, from a 1971...

Greetings C Body Moparians! Today I applied a little arithmetic for us on a simple spreadsheet to make it easy for folks to estimate speeds at given engine rotation rates (RPMs) in sundry transmission gears with a given differential gear ratio. One can vary the tire size and differential...

Greetings B'rer C Body Moparians! While enjoying once again good steering and a straight, proper drive, I notice too much bouncing when I hit those little dips and bumps in the streets, indicative of shock absorber failure. These KYB Gas Adjust front shocks are just 4 years old, with perhaps...

Not in nigh 63 yrs in this world have I ever seen the like of what befell me this evening. I'd just dropped my middle child off at her art class, and turned back into traffic intent on a Sprawlmart run when Disaster struck! I thank my God this didn't occur while in transit TO the class while...

As Promised.... I'm starting this thread now that I no longer have to haul the Babushka to & fro her job this summer. The ball joints are loose, especially on the driver side, and the driver side LCA bushing has been damaged by sundry oils too. ALL FRONT SUSPENSION EQUIPMENT ON THIS CAR IS...

Esteemed Moparians, This afternoon I rest from hot, frustrated toil with the spare left LCA I have in a SUDDEN NECESSITY to replace the front suspension on Gertrude, discovered this past Tuesday when replacing the front left tire. I have PLENTY AUDIBLE SLACK in my steering hardware, which came...

Good Evening Moparians! I copped a nice set of steel 1971 15x6 rims in town a couple days ago, and while the old chrome(?) plating looks good where it is, the rest of the steel would be better preserved and smoothed with a good paint job. This being so, I wonder if there are special paints for...

Good Evening C Body Moparians! Now that Gertrude runs at a GOOD, stable temperature, I can start the LONG HAUL to really restoring her to her beauty AND functionality. The flipper admitted one egregious mechanical fault on purchase, "Damn power steering fluid just POURS out that pump." This...

Felicitations to You Moparians! Now that I'm getting some control over the engine temperature, I'm starting to look at other systems in states of egregious neglect. ONE of these is the vacuum brake booster! We generally don't like any such thing in our vehicles, but for the sake of expediency...

Greetings Moparians! While progress with the Morris Family Plan for Regeneration of Mathilda slowed to a pathetic crawl as ambient temperature soared to literally breathtaking new record highs in the Sonoran Desert, I've discovered a fatal problem with an idler arm installed just 3 short years...

Wish I'd done this sooner, despite the expense. I bought from ESPO Springs n Things their leaf spring kit, with a pair of 7 leaf, heavy duty springs arched 2 inches over stock. I completed this upgrade with a pair of KYB Gas-a-Just shocks and have definitely smoothed out the ride and retained...

As a followup to an earlier question about 1959-66 TRW pumps and systems with them, I now ask the Learned Elders, 1.) How vital is a cooler for the power steering system? and 2.) if the answer to 1.) above is "significantly" or more, then WHERE should I look for a cooler meant for 5/8 inch...

Greetings Moparians! Having just replaced my water pump and radiator last weekend, I noticed while reattaching the power steering pump to the housing (long, tedious tale due to pump having been "superglued" into the housing by shellac) that the pump no longer turns easily. I've been dreading...

Happy News! My rear leaf spring order from SpringsnThings is due Friday. Soooo, I need to consider which rear shock absorber to replace the coil-over Monroe Load levelers I installed to supplement the tired flat steel in my 55 yr old original leaf springs. Looking at the Rare Parts website...

Greetings C Body Moparians, I had installed some crap modern brake shoes along with RayWorstos drums about 2 1/2 yrs ago, rationalizing then that "this was all there was" and I was in a hurry. I didn't like the crap material in the brake shoes I got from VatoZone, but deluded myself with...

The Poor Man’s Master Cylinder Upgrade by: Gerald E. Morris Brakes first concerned me just 3 days after purchasing Mathilda (our 2 door ‘66 Chrysler Newport). I had to replace drums, studs, shoes, springs all within the first month of owning Tilly. Front wheel cylinders and hoses followed a...

Some of you might find a little amusement in my quandary here. I recently made a smug post that I had just bought some Dorman 13976 dust caps for my 66 Newport, and figured that was "simple enough," though at least I didn't type such an arrogant remark. Wellll, ANOTHER of my old dust caps...

Replaced drums, shoes, cylinders, hoses and bearings for the front yesterday and today to eliminate a nasty pull to the left, which the FSM advised a course pretty like this to remedy. It did. Used mostly Raybestos stuff from Rock Auto, though I bought shoes from the local VatoZone as they...

Greetings C-body Moparians! Constantly reminded of WHY I HATE air shocks every morning when I must air up my leaky Monroes, I want to implement a GOOD solution to the problem of lifting Mathilda's rear end 3 inches or so. I like running 235/75/15s in the back, as they do well with Tucson's...

Just wanted to mention that I've commenced rebuilding Mathilda's front suspension, as I've alluded to off and on since joining this august Forum nigh 21 months ago. I've found strong evidence this has never been done before, given the degree of chemical and metallic bonding between the parts...