Thread: My 64 Ford Custom Project

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Well with all the spare time on my hands I got the 64 Ford back in the shop. I’ve moved the car around a few times and with all that motor trying to stop it with the emergency brakes can be interesting. I’ve had all the stuff to do a disc brake conversion sitting in the truck for quite a while now and figured it would be a good time to get it done.

I found out I was luckier on the car than I figured. Looking at it, the front end had been rebuilt and brakes done just prior to it being wrecked (they even had put new springs in it and a new rear brake hose). I really hadn’t been looking forward to the front end rebuild.

The rear shoes and drums are beautiful (the shoes are riveted so I have no problem re-using them. I did put new rear wheel cylinders in, and as I have a real problem trusting the original 45 year old steel brake lines so all those got replaced.

I’ve done this conversion before, and it’s really straight forward. 79 Ford T Bird spindles and brakes are virtually a bolt on. If you are using the original tie rod ends. where they bolt up to the steering arm needs to be thinned a bit so the nut goes down far enough to get the cotter pin in (I have heard that using latter tie rod ends would eliminate having to do this). A 79 T Bird master cylinder also bolts up. The spindle is just enough different that the front end does need realigned but not a big deal there either.

While I was in there I also got rid of the clutch peddle and changed the brake peddle pad to one for an automatic.