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Exchanging Front Suspension as a Whole Unit 1800 1968

posted by  Ian F on  Wed Mar 7 04:43 CST 2007
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This is pretty much how we dropped, refurbished, and reinstalled the front suspension and cross member in our '73 ES. We had pulled the engine, however, and I had the body on a cart which raised the chassis to about 14" from the frame to the ground. I disconnected the brake lines, the pitman and idler arms, removed the bolts, lowered the assembly as a whole with a floor jack (a transmission jack would be better - it was not very stable), and rolled it out from under the car to be moved to a warmer space for further disassembly (we did this during the middle of winter last year).

The green book mentions a rig for suspending the engine from the frame rails during cross-member removal, but IIRC it doesn't really show how it actually works. I think the steering box would need to be removed.

but I'm guessing if you're swapping parts around, the engine is already out?
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(2) '73 1800 ES 'projects', g/f's '73 1800 ES






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