Really helpful video, thanks. I'll be doing this on my '74 Swinger soon, using offset bushings for increased caster. I second the tip about leaving off some lug nuts until the job is really done.
I used 5x4 to 5x4.5 1” thick wheel adapters to put 20” rims on my 69 Valiant. Didn’t tighten them down (with the intention of just to get me to the alignment shop) ended up driving the car for a year. Heard a clack clack clack noise, thought it was an idler arm bushing. One morning on my way to work my rim FELL OFF. Three lug nuts on the adapter backed off and the last 2 studs snapped and my rim fell off. My car scraped the underside luckily just the drum got damaged. The huge rim kept going and broke this guys $200 mailbox!!! Point of the story is this guy is right. Always make sure you tighten everything and get it aligned because you don’t want you’re front end coming apart. Now I have a $200 mailbox to replace, scratched rim, dented fender and messed up my drum and hub. The back rims are fine still with the 20” rims because I torqued them down.
You never showed how to remove and install them.... The Angles and things like that it takes to get it in cuz I'm having difficulty getting mines in.... On the passenger side driver side wasn't that difficult so I'm trying to figure out why am I having such a headache with the passenger side same bushings same control arm but something not lining up properly
Your right for the V-8 cars. My 73 was a 340 Duster and had disc brakes on the front. I no longer have the car and miss it more than any other car Iv owned.
Paul T so if I got 11 inch backing plate I would have to get the same rebuild kit? Or should I just remove the drum brakes backing plates and convert to disc brakes?
The set up I was working with was stock factory. If you're going to change to Disk brakes, You may need to get different spindles upper and lower control arms. Check with your local parts store, some items are interchangeable some are not. Also depending on the diameter of the disks, You may need to even get different wheels. So make sure you do your homework before you go through these changes call the manufacturers.
