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Well I was doing a dash swap in the 79 I just bought and while tearing things apart it got a little out of hand. The guy I bought this car off of was a sneaky dude and managed to hide some interesting issues. So since I've been home all week I started pulling it apart.
I ended up pulling the front end off of it to replace it with the front end off the 86. The PO had turned the battery sideways under the hood to hide the hole where the body had rusted off the frame.
He had also cut 2 or 3 coils out of the springs and put blocks of rubber in between the coils so they couldn't compress. I thought that was kinda weird so I took the coils out of the other car and put those in.
While I was in there it got new koni shocks and ball joints. I also swapped control arms because the other car had new control arm bushings. I replaced the center link, sway bar links, idler arm, sway bar bushings, and inner and outer tie rod ends. I also did the calipers, pads and front brake lines, and I'm going to have the rotors turned this week.
I also cleaned up the frame horns to paint. So what do you all think? Did I miss anything?

I ended up pulling the front end off of it to replace it with the front end off the 86. The PO had turned the battery sideways under the hood to hide the hole where the body had rusted off the frame.


He had also cut 2 or 3 coils out of the springs and put blocks of rubber in between the coils so they couldn't compress. I thought that was kinda weird so I took the coils out of the other car and put those in.

While I was in there it got new koni shocks and ball joints. I also swapped control arms because the other car had new control arm bushings. I replaced the center link, sway bar links, idler arm, sway bar bushings, and inner and outer tie rod ends. I also did the calipers, pads and front brake lines, and I'm going to have the rotors turned this week.

I also cleaned up the frame horns to paint. So what do you all think? Did I miss anything?