I am waiting on hard line to be delivered, once I have that, I will keep everyone posted on progress. I still need to run the hard line and hang the master cylinder and proportioning valve though so I'm a bit away from that but shouldn't be more than a week or so. From what I understand these are a no drop spindle so the ride height should be the same as before I started, but I won't know for certain until I put the wheels back on and put it on the ground. I did not change the upper or lower ball joints, and they are original as they are still riveted, and the spindles dropped on prefectly, tightened down no issues at all.
And at $9 bucks each its makes sense to me. I bought a set of 77 T-Bird tie rod ends and they threaded into the the factory steering perfectly, and are virtually identical to my original 57 tie rods, the only difference being, the stud is longer to accomodate the thicker ball joint mount pad. One thing for those of you considering this swap, I did my research here on this swap, and everything I found said I needed to grind the ball joint mount pad down in order for the tie rod to bolt down correctly and get a cotter pin in there. One bump in the road but that's beacuse I'm a dummy, no need to get into that. I opted for the mid 70's T-Bird swap, and smooth sailing all the way, for the most part. I have completed the Explorer rear disc swap, now on to the fronts. No plumbing completed yet, so no driving results, but I can't wait to drive this thing. 4 wheel discs on a Ranchero, how sweet it is.
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