Well gentlemen, this car has been my grand parents ever since the good 'ol year of '77. It hasn't been driven much if at all (besides out from under the carport to get a scrubdown) in over 10 years. (My grandfather passed away in 1997 the car was his pride and joy). Grandmother never drove it, let it sit and rot.. poor car.. sat there lookin at the '88 chryslers fifth avenue she drives daily for 10 years...!!

Anywhoo the past couple years have seen the front end sag real bad, the k-member of the tranny is less then half inch off the ground, and the front end has no suspension travel.. what looks like happened to me is that the springs gave out, which caused the shocks to fail, and is now sitting on the bump stops.. What do you think?

Are front end parts for these beasts readily available at the parts stores?

 

Sounds like to me that this has some major RUST issues.

 

Nobody eh? What holds the front of the car up.. springs right? so if the springs gave out which im sure are original.. then.. swap them out.. new shocks.. good to go or what?

this car won't last much longer but i need to get it 160kms from my grandmothers to my house or she is going to scrap it!

What do you guys think?

 

i would like to try my hardest to keep this beauty on the road

it will need lots of work that i am happy to do. It's one of the few memories i have of my grandfather and all.. and i would like to keep it around as long as i can.

 

i have not been under the car to thoroughly assess the situation..

in that picture the cross member under neath the oil pan or trans is about 1" from the ground.. lol notice the mad camber on the front wheel?

hoe do the shocks mount? are they there own seperate thing.. or do they tie in to the engine bay fenders like say on my 67 mercury??

nothing has come up through anything... it just kinda looks to me like one spring gave out, and then so did the other trying to support all the weight of that 360

 

kneel on the bumper and if it doesn't go down you have a spring problem and it is sitting on the control arm stops.

it is not uncommon for the bars to snap or the rear mounting points to rust out.

i would suggest a car trailer if the car is sitting on the control arm stops or you will bend or break something.

 

No Springs?? Then how does the front end suspension work? lol

Uhm Nope nothing has been adjusted.. car has been in my family since 1977 and been parked since 97 with a few days of being driven in between then and now. Kneeling or pushing down on the front end results in no movement. I would be down there in a heartbeat working on this old girl.. but its at my grandmothers over 150kms away

I hate not being able to work on it... i have never touched a wrench to the old girl...

 

commando, i think you have l shaped torsion bars. if you don't have spring, you fall.