One week project now in the third week. It all started with a brake spring failure on the right front, which grooved the drum and chewed up the rear shoe.
With the brake failure and worn ball joints, I decided it was time to upgrade to disc brakes on the front of my 69. Ordered the kit with drop spindles and 3" drop springs for the rear. Since I can't work for much over an hour without taking a break, it takes me a while to get anything done.
So far, I have installed the spindles, ball joints, shocks and control arm shafts. Monday night I went to install the new master cylinder and found that I need to bend some tubing. Last night I removed the rear shocks and found the holes in the mounts severly worn, one of them had been welded and the patch was almost worn through. Decided to go ahead and pull the trailing arms for new bushings, and figure it will probably be easiest to remove the coil springs with the torch.
It's a good thing my 52 is in good shape, she's getting about 300 miles a week on her right now.
to get to the leaf-spring bushings, upper and lower ball-joints, bearing repack, U-joint ot two as well as a few other things done on my `72. I have been running the tires off it and it is needing some TLC.