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Brain fart . . . you are right, wont work unless you are using the coulmn shifter. I updated mine to the later switch (in trans)

Hook it up! the reverse lights work on my racecar!

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Spindles ready, I bolted on the caliper brackets and painted them Eastwood cast iron grey. Splash shields ready, painted Duplicolor cast aluminum - Lower ball joints, again Eastwood cast iron grey.

Splash Shields after a Vinnegar, lemon juice & salt soak.

And the cleaning continues - All these parts are down to bare metal - next step prep & paint. I have removed the old sway bar link brackets, prepped & fitted the new brackets. Next is to weld them on and paint.

Polys made 230HP! Beautiful car.

Time for a change -

You can use a mattress bag to cover it up - works good.

More cleaning - dust shields, I was surprised to see they were galvanized. Not a spec of rust on them after 52 years, they were very dirty though. You can also see it the pic that they have that wrecking yard yellow paint pen writing on them . . . apparently these came off a '73 Satellite. My...

Dont you just love picking up your nice new engine parts from the machine shop?

I'm going to upgrade to a bigger sway bar for this car. I got a good price on a used Summit 1 1/8 sway bar for it but my lower control arms have the link brackets in the wrong spot. I wish I could just swap control arms from my other '66 Coronet (it has the correct brackets) but that would be...

Pressing in the new bushings - New ball joints installed and a-arms painted. On to the next phase -

No way Dude!

Back at it, more fun stuff . . . cleaning parts. Step 1 - clean off oil, grease & dirt. Step 2 - remove old paint with paint remover. Step 3 - soak parts in my vinnegar, lemon juice & salt soup. Upper control arms before - And after - now ready for new bushings, ball joints and fresh paint -

As you can see in the pictures the control arms, spindles & struts are all painted black. So somebody was in here previously. I'm pretty sure it was my dad, he was a penny pincher so he probably only replaced what was needed, usually the bushings and lower ball joints & maybe a couple tie rod...

Uppers - how do you get yours out? I claim victory again !

Bushing removal time - I ended up adding more welds to get the shells out but I won!

Dissasembly - turns out the front shocks are done-in unlike the rears. Gonna put KYB's on it.

A little cleanup on the drivers side This is the idler arm off the car, there are no grease fittings. Could this be the original? Unbelievably it is still very tight too!