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Progress is kinda slow, there's a lot going on and I'm a one man show….I borrowed a friend's 15x14 Welds rim and mounted a tire on it, and played with my wheel spacers to figure out the offset and adjusted the 4 link to get the best wheel centerline. This is where it will sit at the lowest ride height it can go (that only leave me 3" of clearance at the back half cross bar by the driveshaft loop). That's almost too low but I wanted to see how low I could get. Realistically I might raise it up 1/2" for good measure.
Evidently, I believe that overall it lowers the car about 1" or more from original height.
I could probably go another 1/4 to 1/2 outward but I'm out of backspace….this rim is a 4.5bs and I have 1" worth of spacer (to make it 3.5) and 3.5 is the smallest back space you can order
Last edited by mirage2991; Jul 2, 2015 at 09:52 PM.
Nice shop, just started my 69 restore. Working on body mounts and making a list of other things to be disconnected. Any thoughts, I thought brakes at master. rag joint for steering column, front and rear bumper brackets, emerg. brake, seats, radiator, console, battery cables, fuel wires to sender, gas boot, anything else would be appreciated.
The one thing I forgot was the seat belt mount bolts, started picking the whole *** end of the car up off the floor. There is a couple brackets underneath held on by a couple of 11/16" nuts.
I go back and forth between chassis work and body work, fixing little things such as odd firewall holes from added grommets or other faux pas during previous engine instal (have big 2in hole there from what looks like the motor swinging into the firewall). I power washed the firewall (much faster than going at it with a rag) and prepping it for paint.
Took the wiper arm system out to clean it (and to clean the cavity)
Then installed my rack and pinion: this is the Steroid kit, except I pieced it together. I bought the two brackets off them (save me fab time) and made one bracket (basically the gusset for the driver side bracket) and bought the rack from Rock Auto for 97 bucks
