"Mindbender" '68 Phase III story - Page 3

Pantera · #21 02-10-2005, 03:20 AM

Those Look they are for a Chevelle and chevelles have contol arms that will keep the housing from rotating around the pinion gear and causing a wreck. Usually you will loose the driveshaft rear ujoint up against the bottom of the car. But on the Chev II's they had nothing that went over the rear axle where it fit on the spring and the dam things were killers. when the wield would break and it did when you put enought torke to it, then the entire rearend had nothing but the driveshaft holding it under the car. If you were going fast enought it would cause a hell of a wreck.

I bet it cost GM a bunch of money back then. They had the same set up out for 3 to 4 years until the horsepower of the 327 HI Per motors suddenly started to twist the entire housing out of the cars. simple solution was to just replace the bolts with a U bolt and problem solved.

I would bet someone here has the service order or what ever they called it.

Pantera

427TJ · #22 02-10-2005, 03:30 AM

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Looks like that 68 is an original big block car from the pictures. You can see the big block heater box.

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I read somewhere that Joel Rosen preferred that buyers order a L78 car and then do the Phase conversion from that starting point. They'd pull the L78 and sell it at the Baldwin parts counter. The picture shows the Baldwin Chev. parts counter circa-1968 and you can clearly see a L78 engine---probably yanked during a Motion conversion. (The original photo shows the "396" air cleaner sticker clearly.)

JoeG · #23 02-10-2005, 03:46 AM

---Very organized list--Should look super--Will it be burning rubber by summer

Is the same fella who did your Macos, doing the panel work??

---------------------------Your right Larry about the welded spring perches--like you said as power increased so did suppport.I showed that picture of the ladder bar , to show almost everything was welded back then as the cure-all solution,but it did need support to handle the stress---I wouldn't have wanted to be in the car when the spring perch let loose on a power-shift--------

djunod · #24 02-10-2005, 04:35 AM

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Will it be burning rubber by summer

Is the same fella who did your Macos, doing the panel work??

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He's supposed to be done with rear half by the end of next week (which includes priming the rear half). I'll then get a quote from him for the time & money to paint it. I hope to have it back by April or May. Drive it all summer with the small block.

No, Fiberglass Specialties only does Corvettes. The guy doing my Camaro has an excellent reputation for doing classic cars... just that he has limited time... also does collision work (and a contract for all FedEx vehicles in the area).

JoeG · #25 02-10-2005, 05:16 AM

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How wide is an L-60 tire

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427TJ · #26 02-10-2005, 06:55 AM

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How wide is an L-60 tire

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I made a typo---the photo caption says L70x15 not 60. On that 8-inch rim the tread looks about 8 inches across. Now that's a big'ol tall 70 if you ask me!