A couple more of the springs.
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One spring done, front bushing installed and repainted as a whole unit. Now only one to go! Lol
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Well after getting both rear springs rebuilt and painted I moved on to the drive shaft and finally got the trans bolted up to the bell housing. A few interesting pictures while cleaning on the drive shaft. This is not the original for the car as I had a friend help me find it at this years past mopar Nats. So by the ink stamp part number on the drive shaft matches what is on the build sheet.

Buildsheet showing the prop shaft.
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Soaked the driveshaft in evaporust, and had it powder coated a flat clear. Also put the part number stencil back on the drive shaft.
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Working on my DANA 60 for the car. Had to replace the spring perches on the housing as they were all out of shape from previous replacement. Next will be clean it up and new bearings after getting it back from the powder coating the housing. I really don’t think I needed the alignment bar while doing the repair but since I had it I thought I’d use it and it also tells me the tubes are straight.
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Been cleaning up the engine bay to get ready for the engine. Not going to paint it, just cleaning the original paint as best I can and replacing the fuel and brake lines. I’m also going to upgrade the brakes to dual reservoir system. I also noticed the master cylinder appears to be the original and looks to be dated 07-6 so I’m assuming the 7th week of 66.
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Basically finished with the Dana 60 rebuild. All new bearings, seals, and suregrip unit rebuilt. Powder coated the housing and hopefully using a 4 wheel disc brake setup to help slow things down.
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Lookin good, Matt!

Really looking great Matt, and you are moving right along. I can't wait to see more come together. I hope you are not using the chrome cover on the rearend, the purists will not be happy with you. In my opinion, I think it looks awesome, and I think you should keep it unless you are going for a concours resto.

LOL, Yes I am using the chrome cover! Not much looks better than a dana 60 with a chrome cover on it, it was between the chrome cover and a cast aluminum one I have. The cast aluminum one was taller and I worried it might interfere with fuel tank. Nothing that can not easily be changed back to stock if need be. Same thing for the brakes, I have kept all the original parts, but for safety and drivability purposes I am going with a dual reservoir master cylinder and 4 wheel disc brakes to slow the car hopefully better than the 4 wheel drums. Again nothing that can not be easily changed back to stock if need be. I enjoy driving my cars vs looking at them!
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Nice work Matt!

Fuel tank is in finally, like everything today the AMD tank was not bent around the seem like the original tank and the strap was hitting that area so I had to bend those area to let the tank clear the strap. Also had to get a reproduction J bolt as the original was now to short to reuse. Had the tank clear powder coated while it was out, and the original sending unit rebuilt by John Wolf and company, so hopefully all works as it should.
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Some progress this weekend. I was able to get the Dana 60 under the car and assemble the majority of the rear suspension. From what I can tell this is the first time the car has had a Dana under it since the late 60’s or early 70’s, before it left California. Pretty neat to see a lot of the parts come together on the rear. I also had to set the rear tires on it, I will have to change the backspacing on the rear wheels, but that is down the line.
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A couple pictures of the rear discs installed with calipers. This is a Right Stuff kit, but they use brackets that have to be used with green bearings and I wanted to keep the adjustable taper bearings so I had to get another set of brackets and rotors from Cass at Dr.Diff to make all that work out. Now I’m to the point of installing the rear lines and E brake cables but the stuff with the kit is universal E brake cable so now I will need to order another set. At any rate still making slow progress, and this should give me a little more stopping power.
Not sure that I’d venture down this road again though with the rear brakes.
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A few interesting things I noticed while removing the steering column and the wiper motor. One neat item is the stamp on the underside of the cowl panel, that must have been from the steel supplier who supplied Chrysler with the flat steel to be stamped. Wiper motor looks like a 15 week of 1966 part.
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I ran a set of slicks like that on my Challenger back in the day. They seemed really tall compared to my 14" wheels. It actually felt as if it changed the gear ratio a bit, and slowed the car down.

Sharing a couple factory markings I noticed while working on the car this past Friday. The drivers side torsion bar has a couple dark red paint marks while the passenger bar has a single mustard yellow colored mark.
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Well some progress this weekend. Was able to get the engine and front suspension in the car. Probably the first time a hemi has set between the rails of this car in about 45 years. Crazy when you think about it. I will say installing a hemi from under the bottom is no easy task mine was very tight to say the least, but we got it so on to other items.
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From under the K frame.