After cleaning up the engine compartment, just water and de greaser, and brushes
After sanding down and welding up unnessessary holes
The steering was replaced from power steering to manual steering; to minimize plumbing,weight, gain header clearance.
Above is the old to the new comparison
A-arm clean-up
New bushings, tortion bars, and SSBC brake kit
The Duster came with factory 4 piston disc brakes, but the calipers for the factory setup can only be purchased in the 5x4" bolt pattern, as opposed to the more common 5x4.5" pattern, to allow the SSBC kit to work, and to use the newer one piece calipers, drum brake spindles (with SSBC conversion plates) had to be used in place of the factory disc spindles
UPDATE: 04/20/08 The Strange Dana S60 (9.75")came today, with the willwood disk brakes and 3.54 posi. Its a little bit bigger than the stock 7.25" that came with it.
Tires also came in a week ago, and put them on, a nice comparison of new and old again
UPDATE: 04/23/08 the dana is in place now, the cars back on the ground. The 275's fit like they were made for the car, stock wheel wells and springs, no clearance issues.
4 piston wilwoods hiding
Installed the linelock, and the rear proportioning valve, and routed all of the hard lines
UPDATE: 05/24/08 Since Strange felt like being cheap on their sealing methods, the differential leaked about 1 cup of fluid in 12 hours, replaced the gasket, added RTV should be good now, heres a look at the huge ring gear
UPDATE: 06/05/08 I started refurbishing the grille with the original and a salvage yard grille, also with some free time i figured id make a new emblem for the grille, its a cast tin/lead emblem.
