Front end swap, again

[ZEKE68]

I bolted 73-87 control arms onto my 68, and they fit right up. I used 73-87 lowered spindles with them. There are two issues to point out doing this. One is that the drum brake trucks have the brake lines run on the rear side of the front cross member. The later disc brake trucks had the brake lines run on the front side of the front cross member. I had to weld new brake hose brackets to the front of my 68 cross member to use the factory style lines and hoses. The second issue is that the 73-87 spindles use a different size tie rod end taper, so you have to use an adaptor style tie rod link with different threads in each end. If you used the later cross member and cross link, you may not have to have the adaptor link. If you are going to use a 1969 up saginaw power steering unit, you need to change out the steering column to a 1969 up column. The 68 column won't work with the saginaw box.