This project has officially become “real” with the arrival this week of boxes and boxes of parts.
Boxes of parts for the engine:
And boxes of parts for the brakes and suspension:
The engine part boxes I’ll only get to look at but (likely) not touch as the machine shop will get all the fun.
The brake and suspension parts we get to do :). Included in the picture are:
- A big new anti-sway bar (brown box) to replace the itty-bitty little one that came stock with the car.
- A drum brake hardware kit (little black box containing a bunch of things I cannot yet identify)
- Four disk brake pads (yellow box)
- Two drum brake shoes (blue box)
- A Power brake booster (big white box)
- A disk brake hardware kit (big black box – also containing a bunch of things I cannot yet identify)
The “things I cannot yet identify” part is a wee bit frustrating. The big black box in the front contains a Dorman HW5504 Disc Brake Hardware Kit. You would think that by going to Dorman’s website you’d find out what was actually in the kit.
Nope.
What about Google?
Nada.
I think I’ve discovered the mechanic’s first rule:
The first rule of auto parts is that you don’t talk about auto parts
Or share information of any kind….Or include instructions with your packaging…
Thankfully, we have the University of YouTube that obeys no such rules. Watching this video was very helpful.
There’s still pieces in the box I can’t identify, but there’s a lot fewer of them now.
The plan for this weekend is to install the brake power booster and disassemble the front discs in order to remove the brake rotors so we can get them resurfaced. We’ll still have more parts than time, but we’ll be making a dent in the part pile.
Until the parts that are on their way already start to show up next week…
The Mustang Restoration 