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Garage therapy followed by rumble therapy when the Dart fires up!

 

Wow, sorry to hear that. I guess you really were sick. Take it easy for a few weeks, the car will keep.

 

Ya can't keep a good Dan down! Hope you recover quickly.

 

Speedy Recovery !

 

Some guys just got to show everybody up, do everything a little bit better
Get better soon but don’t push it…

 

Get well soon, listen to the guys.
Cheers Harald

 

Hoping you're feeling better.

 

Man, hadn’t checked in here in a few days and find out you have been in the hospital! Praying you can get back to normal soon and feel like getting back on the car.

 

It's a ******. Prayers.

 

Thank you all!!
I’m back home recuperating, a little weak the Doc tells me a week or two for full recovery. I had excellent care in the Hospital.

You guys are the greatest.
Dan

 

Good to hear!!

 

Give it time, but keep hitting ''that wall''.
Sorry you were in it, While this Saturday makes it official.
Maybe not quite, ? Time to leave the 'cave'.
Just drive it first gear, for a spell. And Keep Your 'Tank' filled.
Here's to You Ya 'Unhinged Maniac'

Happened that way to me One time +Mailbox for details, not here

 

Now is a great time to collect on a few of those brownie points you might have with your wife and take it easy, listen to the doctors…

 

Picture stolen from the web.
Ok back to car stuff.
Sitting around and thinking (dangerous) about paint and body hopefully this summer.
I have some medium blue. Was thinking blue and silver.
Dan

 

Good to hear from you! It's natural we start worrying a little. We're older now and these recent bugs are nasty.

Definitely be good to yourself and take it easy. Don't be surprised if you start feeling better but then experience a small relapse. Just put your pajamas back on and watch some more cartoons.

 

Blue and silver sounds great.

 

The paint scheme looks good on the red/silver car.

 

Just don't clone a Ramchargers paint scheme my buddy did it on a wedge Dodge posted it on his Facebook ,then got a message from a lawyer that the scheme is copyrighted and he was gonna get sued if he didn't change it

 

Well, aren't they fun!

 

Getting sued for a copied paint scheme for personal use?
WOW a little over the top.
Dan

 

Saweeet!!

 

WAY over the top!!

 

Well, the car in this picture isn't a Dart, but it is blue & silver (its my son's 57 Dodge).
I think the blue and silver go together pretty good.

 

That car rocks. Nice Very Nice.
Dan

 

I like it,a lot!!

 

I need replace all the dust boots on the front suspension. The old rubber is bad, however the ball joints, tie rod ends etc. are good, flushed with lots of grease.
Not sure how the new ones are installed. The old ones appear to have something similar to an internal snap ring for lack of better terminology. I’m thinking a socket, or piece of tubing over the dust cap cap and a sharp blow with a mallet?
Anyone ever replaced dust boots on suspension parts?
Dan

 

If they can slide over the stud and the stud slid into the joint and the nut installed, it should 'pop' on just fine.
If they are all off the car and a vise is handy, yes, a socket can be used to coax them on. I try not to hammer rubber parts on if possible. Front end stuff has it's own set of rules, though. Maybe a big C clamp?

 

Ryan, on the old stuff like your Dart, the tie rod end and ball joint boots just fit over the stud and when it was ***embled, and the nut was tightened down, the clamping force just held them in place. On the grease end (the open end), they just pretty much sat over the top of the joint itself and were 'sealed' by the sides of the boots forcing the open end to sit tight.

The 60s OEM rubber boots had a metal ring at the bottom that sat against a step on the outer housing, but there was no mechanical connection on the open end of the boot other then the fit of the rubber over the housing. I have not seen many recent rubber boots that have the metal ring attached to the rubber, but the ones that do tend to fit against the housing pretty tight, like the metal ring was too small.
The purpose of the rubber boot is to keep dirt & debris out of the joint, and to help keep the grease in. The open end of the boot is suppose to allow excess grease an escape route if the joint was over greased, other wise, an over greasing event splits the rubber.

 

If you're using the polyurethane boots as pictured you'll find they're moulded extra thick at the small end so when they're fitted to the car the flat surface there will **** up against the stub axle/spindle and hold them in place. Same scenario with tie rod end boots where they meet the steering arm or centre link.

 

That's really nice it's too bad that JD Wheels stop making the
Halibrand lookalike rims the 10 x15s are really nice, and skinny front runners I had on my '34 were cool