The Lawn Dart

[Deceus]

Labor of love right?  Nice job.  

My best advice for doing AN Lines is to pick up the "koul" AN tools.  I will never try to put together AN Lines again without those tools.

Yup picked one of those up and it's been flawless so far. Was on fence that it was worth the money at first but it has definitely paid for itself 100x at this point with all the lines I've made. I think the hose split on that one fitting a bit and instead of threading in like it should have, it folded the hose and pushed it out a bit. It seemed a little crooked but I got a little cocky and ran with it since I haven't had a single one leak yet.

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I know you've said it somewhere, but what exactly is going on here? You swapped the subframe?

There's a crossmember between the front 2 frame rails that holds the engine and steering box in place and is where my lower control arms mount.



I passed on the tubular setup initially because it was only offered in the earlier "biscuit" style motor mounts. Basically just a piece of rubber gets sandwiched between the engine and k-frame. They were notoriously shitty for any motor with a respectable amount of torque and once that rubber was compromised, your engine was free to bounce around where ever it wanted.



That's why they switch to a spool mount in 73 which was basically a solid motor mount with an insert.



I went with a solid steel mount to eliminate the possibility of my engine getting loose but it's still a lot harder to setup. Before I just had to drop a bolt into a slot, now I have to line up the motor and k-frame with mount to get it sandwiched properly. Huge pain in the ass I didn't wanna to go through but the passenger side of the old unit was wallowed out when I got it and is likely the source of all the front-end alignment issues.