Between the cold, the heat, the rain and the NBA playoffs there are endless distractions to keep me out of the garage. Getting started is the hard part. I shook off the winter blues and started today. But wait, the winter months generated a nice layer of clutter on top of all the parts and tools. Three hours later… I get started again. Now where was I. Ah yes, brakes lines and the missing brake distribution block. Of all the parts I figured I could not buy new this is not one of them. A quick internet search and quickly I realize I really need to find this thing or I will be wading through junk yards for countless hours. So I spent another two hours looking through every box of parts that came off the truck. I was sad to find that I didn’t remember removing more than a few of them. There were many exclamations of “Hope I took a picture of that thing before I took it off!” I finally found the part and of course it was in the very last box. Small victories! With part in hand I think my schedule is still intact. Next time I will get some serious work down!
Here is confirmation of a successful treasure hunt along with a bonus master cylinder:
I hand-bent all new brake lines for my ’74 Plymouth Duster. That was well worth it.
A fellow (senior) crew chief once told me, “It doesn’t matter how many horses you have under the hood if you can’t stop.”
New brake lines is still an option. Still need to evaluate the old ones.
Do you still have that Duster? Did you post pictures anywhere? I would love to link them from this site along with a story on the work you did on it.