Rocky has a new coach?????
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Rocky Fluegge
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Maybe two sets of books. One for the wife (if married), and the REAL book
Thanks hee hee, my wife is a car girl and understands the money spent to bring these around. The only problem is i keep hearing that the money i spend on that could be going to get her truck done!!! I here that lots i will get back to working on it real soon here.
Ron Devies
PCS Ohio Chapter President PCS Past Vice President
What an awesome find
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
well it is the start of the rebuild. Im doing a disc brake conversion to the front end. This is the same for 57 -60 cads.
Here is the pile of parts needed to do it
Here is the pile of parts needed to do it
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Rocky Fluegge
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The spindle brackets are from "scarebird"
it is always amazing at how much build up of grease and dirt that can builds up, especially when you consider this is a twenty thousand mile car.
Here are the pics of the build up, and then cleaned up, i put some paint on the spindles.
Thats is where it is at i hope to start putting it together today.
it is always amazing at how much build up of grease and dirt that can builds up, especially when you consider this is a twenty thousand mile car.
Here are the pics of the build up, and then cleaned up, i put some paint on the spindles.
Thats is where it is at i hope to start putting it together today.
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Tom Hoczyk
PCS Past President
Rocky, I'm thrilled you have this fine car and that you don't do things half-way. Get those mechanicals correct now and not worry about them later on. Don't make assumptions about the amounts of wear, either. When I simply swapped generators while installing factory a/c in my '60 Eureka, turns out the brushes were severely worn and the generator failed on the way to the Cadillac Grand National in Des Moines several years ago. I sure learned a lesson from that one! Good luck with your project. I sure look forward to seeing it some day. Tom
John Royark JR
PCS Member
Rocky, will your CC rims still fit after the swap? just curious because when I tried to put a rim from my 66 Superior (drum) on my 1969 M-M (disc) the taper of the rim was to small and would not turn against the calipar.
Just a heads up.
Just a heads up.
Darren Bedford
PCS Member
Rocky
Thanks for the neat photos.
Keep us posted with photos of the work you are doing to that beauty !
Gotta love it !
Darren
Thanks for the neat photos.
Keep us posted with photos of the work you are doing to that beauty !
Gotta love it !
Darren
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
I will slid them up and find out tommorow, i finished it up swept up stuff and put tools away but did not try to bolt the rims up we will see?
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
well i finished up on the disc conversion, it went real smooth, the only thing i had to play with is i had to grind down on disc brake pad to get it to fit in. Here are the pics of the finished set up. I bet it will stop that monster much better.
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John ED Renstrom
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I would guess you will need to go to the later model disk wheels. if the stock one will go one there would not be enough surface area to give you the hold you would need on the big car.
Darren Bedford
PCS Member
Rocky
OUTSTANDING !
I thought there was much more involved.
You make it look easy bro !
I will have to do that to my Corvette sometime.
Thanks for the great photos and inspiration !!!
Darren
OUTSTANDING !
I thought there was much more involved.
You make it look easy bro !
I will have to do that to my Corvette sometime.
Thanks for the great photos and inspiration !!!
Darren
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
well the answer of will the commercial wheels fit, Nope!!!
i tried to fit them up.but the inside my commercial wheel has a slight radius toward the inside, it looked close. And there is a square casting on the outside of the caliper that was catching the rim, it did not hold anything so i grabbed a grinder rounded it off, and it let the wheel set closer. But still no go. I had a gm steel wheel that i had for a spare for my lowered 96 gmc pick up and put it on, and lots of room since the inside is more square on them.
so it looks like i will hunt down some newer 15><6" steel wheel's for it.
i tried to fit them up.but the inside my commercial wheel has a slight radius toward the inside, it looked close. And there is a square casting on the outside of the caliper that was catching the rim, it did not hold anything so i grabbed a grinder rounded it off, and it let the wheel set closer. But still no go. I had a gm steel wheel that i had for a spare for my lowered 96 gmc pick up and put it on, and lots of room since the inside is more square on them.
so it looks like i will hunt down some newer 15><6" steel wheel's for it.
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
well i had the ups stop and bring me more stuff today for the 58.
what you are seeing here is a new reproduced gas tank from "auto city classic inc" looks very nice. I also ordered a new sending unit, and new straps and bolts.
I thanked them for taking the time to make some of these parts that we know there is not alot of people looking for.
Also posted some pics of my old tank, you see why it needed to get replaced. As kurt said he had a intresting story to how that happened.
what you are seeing here is a new reproduced gas tank from "auto city classic inc" looks very nice. I also ordered a new sending unit, and new straps and bolts.
I thanked them for taking the time to make some of these parts that we know there is not alot of people looking for.
Also posted some pics of my old tank, you see why it needed to get replaced. As kurt said he had a intresting story to how that happened.
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John ED Renstrom
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how are the fuel lines set up? it's reported to be the tank out of the 57 fleetwood in the 58 CC. I have not checked for awhile on them but heard they were going to reproduce them. the sending unit is the same CC from 57 to 70. they have them still priced around 550 for the tank and 90 for the sending unit?
that's what I had heard they were going to be.
that's what I had heard they were going to be.
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
i will have to change my fuel lines i want them all new. The tank was $499 the whole set up tank, sending unit and straps and bolts and shipping $594.00
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
are your going to try to order them? or do it in house? I'm in the same boat with this 58 here the lines were cut in back and are none existent from the fuel pump up. we should have waited. but we did get a nice NOS tank from a original donor with only 300,000 miles on it with only mild problems of loosing the spacer out of one fitting and some one soldering the line back in. cherry for a 57 tank.
Rocky Fluegge
PCS Member
im going to just make up the lines when i get to that stage on this one. Im going to change the master cylinder/ power brake booster ect. So im going to have to make the brake lines, i will just keep going and make the fuel lines also.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
these guys do a nice job for a decent price. we used them on the 72 and the 69. http://www.inlinetube.com/ I never asked them about the undercarriage stuff for the CC cars. about the only difference would be the length of the center doors. that told gal of yours looks under neath about like this one here and the Seville and the stoner. a little power wash knock off any flakes and scale and dab on the Bill H miracle paint will make all the difference when you put the new tank back in.
