I know I could say the hellos in the new members section, but the main reason I wanted to join is because I wanted to add a little write up about a repair I did to my 67.
The cars been pulling to the right hard under braking, and adding disk brakes to it just seemed to make it worse. I replaced the rubber strut rod bushings last year, and they had less than 100 miles on them, but while doing the brakes, I noticed that the one on my passenger side was almost completely chewed away. So being sick of replacing them already, I set out to repair them permanently. The main reason I wanted to post what I did was the serious lack of any real info on this besides people either telling me to get some after markets for 4-500 bucks, or switch to poly bushings. I know my way around machines, and I know many of us car guys take pride in doing stuff ourselves. So I set out to figure things out myself.
First things first, I removed the rods from the car.
As you can see, the frame mount has seen better days. Wisconsin will do that.
As you can see, the rod didn't fare much better. Next, I cut the old washer and nut off, and chucked the rods up in my lathe, turned the OD down to .750.
I then cut a length of threads in the end, 3/4-16. Made them way longer then I know I'd need, knew I could always cut it down after.
Next, I used about 5.5 inches of .250DOM tubing (probably way overkill for what I'm doing, but what the heck) and welded some left and right hand 3/4-16 ends do the tube after cleaning them up a bit on the lathe.
After that was all done, I assembled it all with some eBay greasable rod ends. I think they were calling them Johnny joints, or something along that line. Costed me something like 35 bucks each. You could easily go cheaper or with different heims than I, and just modify your measurements a bit. I personally liked them because they were greasable.
Anyway, I bolted the rod back in the car so I could see where everything would line up.
The cars been pulling to the right hard under braking, and adding disk brakes to it just seemed to make it worse. I replaced the rubber strut rod bushings last year, and they had less than 100 miles on them, but while doing the brakes, I noticed that the one on my passenger side was almost completely chewed away. So being sick of replacing them already, I set out to repair them permanently. The main reason I wanted to post what I did was the serious lack of any real info on this besides people either telling me to get some after markets for 4-500 bucks, or switch to poly bushings. I know my way around machines, and I know many of us car guys take pride in doing stuff ourselves. So I set out to figure things out myself.
First things first, I removed the rods from the car.
As you can see, the frame mount has seen better days. Wisconsin will do that.
As you can see, the rod didn't fare much better. Next, I cut the old washer and nut off, and chucked the rods up in my lathe, turned the OD down to .750.
I then cut a length of threads in the end, 3/4-16. Made them way longer then I know I'd need, knew I could always cut it down after.
Next, I used about 5.5 inches of .250DOM tubing (probably way overkill for what I'm doing, but what the heck) and welded some left and right hand 3/4-16 ends do the tube after cleaning them up a bit on the lathe.
After that was all done, I assembled it all with some eBay greasable rod ends. I think they were calling them Johnny joints, or something along that line. Costed me something like 35 bucks each. You could easily go cheaper or with different heims than I, and just modify your measurements a bit. I personally liked them because they were greasable.
Anyway, I bolted the rod back in the car so I could see where everything would line up.