I pulled off my bumpers on my 76 [ what was GM thinking ] all the tons of springs and brackets.I threw it all in the trash and hung them back on brackets i made.Over 85# of weight i removed.Looks like your making good headway on your car...that ford horn is too funny....lol

 

I dont guess you have pics of that, do you?

I drove her into the town about 30 miles away to get my tags and paperwork.
Heres the good and bad things that I made note of.

The good.
Cruse like a cadillac eldorado in a straight line.
Tracks well without any pull to the side.
Not to much exhaust sound.

The bad.
The dash rattles like its got a jar of quarters inside it. lol
It coughs when you try take off from a stop. (Maby the accelerator pump or fuel/air mix)
The break lights are very dim in daylight. (maby a bad ground in the trunk)

Thoughts?

 

Today, I was poking around in the dash. I found where some of the bracing had cam lose and I noticed that none of my gauges where working ecept for the MPH. (its cable driven) I removed the cluster and found that some of the printed circuit was not attached properly. I've not reinstalled it yet, but I wanted to ask if any ones had any luck finding a wiring diagram?

 

The printed circuits do go bad on our cars. I have seen them as low as 20 dollars, thats the good news.

 

Here is a side shot that shows both bumpers pulled in about 2".sorry i did not take pics of what i did but it was not hard.the front was an easy fix.the back i had to make up brackets to hang bumper on.

 

Its fine, thank you. She looks VERY sharp. Did you haft to do a mini tub to fit the rear tires/wheels on it?

 

Yes,its mini-tubbed.its a 30x12 bfg drag radial.

 

By in, did you mean toward the windshield or narrowed? I can't tell either way. I'm not a big bumper expert by no means.

 

yeah he means he tucked the bumper in 2 inches toward the body.

 

We did that to a buddies truck except we traced the outline of the end of the bumper and tucked it right into the fender a 1/2". Looked factory after he spent a month of night in the garage shaping it and smoothing until the fender looked stamped to fit around it.