The story of Schtauffer's 67 Malibu

[Schtauffer]

Don't worry, I didn't miss it! It made my day. Also made me look forward to the next GG's.

[Schtauffer]

Re-bushed the throttle pedal, it was really floppy. Also replace the factory rod with a piece of rod and some heim ends. The throttle definitely feels a lot smoother, much less "sticky". Also got the line-loc wired up today. Instead of screwing around trying to wire it into one of the dash lights, I found a neat spot for it: on the tach mount. Now its tucked up next to the dash, where its very non-intrusive. Still hate the button on the shifter, though. I gotta come up with a good way of mounting that.

Also, I had the dash out, and replaced the speedometer bezel. Cleaned everything up good while it was out. Fourty years of crud is substantial.

[fahrenschnell]

I like you throttle linkage.....I am going to steal that idea and use it on my Malibu. ;)

Thanks.

Seth

[Schtauffer]

Seth, a car as bad-ass as yours should have heims.

Heims are cool.

[TheSilverBuick]

dagnesta, I'm debating between stealing your idea with the brake hose(s) or asking you for one of those caliper brake line blocks I'm missing one, and hit the parts store today to look at brake hoses. I'm leaning towards the hoses.

Haven't worked on the car in two weeks. I've been fighting a cold, and figured it would be best to not lay around on cold concrete for hours at a time. If I ever get to build a shop, its gonna have heated floors.

Anyway, farted around with it a little today... the factory way of running lines to the calipers was not very service-friendly-- they used this adapter and ran a hard line right to the caliper:



I thought it might be nice to be able to take the caliper off without disconnecting the line (and having to bleed the brakes), so I got some short hoses. I'll loop them and zip-tie them to the axle tubes, and run the hardlines to them.



Discs brakes are gooder. I put long studs in so I can run my Weld Pro Stars. I had to drill the rotor to 1/2" for the studs to fit. Nothing fancy, just drilled them on the drill press with a 1/2" bit, then reamed them out a tiny bit with a hand-held drill and that same 1/2" bit.



The distribution block/proportioning valve is the factory 4-wheel drum brake unit. Any input as to what I should do about it? Think I can use it? I have the Firebird block for 4-wheel disc, I'm thinking I should plumb that one in. I'm also going to plumb in a Hurst roll control and a Wilwood adjustable restrictor valve (thanks, LS7 GTO).

[Schtauffer]

PM me your addy, I'll drop them in the mail for you, if you want them.

I reccommend the hoses, though. Make maintenance simpler. Imagine kinking a brake line along side the road somewhere far from home.

[TheSilverBuick]

I'm leaning towards your idea. What application are you using for the hoses? The ones I'm looking at look just like the ones you're using (the parts store let me flip through their stock).

I'm glad you posted the idea, I'm not sure I'd have come up with it after realizing I'm missing the block.

[Mr4Speed]

The original brake setup on my Firebird that had the iron calipers used a hose on one side and the hardline went right into the caliper on the other. (weird) Hoses are the way to go-much easier to pull a caliper off. You should be able to use any front brake hose that has the right threads and length. The setup on my car uses metric threads and bubble flares-don't know what the 70's parts use.

[Schtauffer]

I'm leaning towards your idea. What application are you using for the hoses? The ones I'm looking at look just like the ones you're using (the parts store let me flip through their stock).

I'm glad you posted the idea, I'm not sure I'd have come up with it after realizing I'm missing the block.

I'm not sure what the application is. I took the blocks down to the parts store and he matched the hoses up. I would give you the part numbers, but I threw the boxes out.

I'll check my receipt, maybe it will have a part number.

[TheSilverBuick]

I'll just match it up at the store too.

I was looking at Raybestos BH38421 if you happen to look and find the number.