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Title: Very strange......
Post by: Jeff Norwell on 2013-08-20 20:10
Look.... my 57 has a left disc brake....I cannot understand how or why this would have happened.
It was last on the road in 71.
Maybe some previous owner did not complete the job..... but how it ever worked.....is beyond me.






Drivers left


(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/JEFFNORWELL/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8398.jpg) (http://s132.photobucket.com/user/JEFFNORWELL/media/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8398.jpg.html)


Drivers right.


(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/JEFFNORWELL/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8399.jpg) (http://s132.photobucket.com/user/JEFFNORWELL/media/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8399.jpg.html)


Drivers left.


(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/JEFFNORWELL/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8400.jpg) (http://s132.photobucket.com/user/JEFFNORWELL/media/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8400.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Jeff Norwell on 2013-08-20 20:11
Drivers Left

(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/JEFFNORWELL/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8406.jpg) (http://s132.photobucket.com/user/JEFFNORWELL/media/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8406.jpg.html)

Drivers Right

(http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q7/JEFFNORWELL/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8402.jpg) (http://s132.photobucket.com/user/JEFFNORWELL/media/WIDOW%20MAKER/IMG_8402.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: hiball3985 on 2013-08-20 20:20
Drivers left, drivers right? does that mean it has two steering columns  :003:

Seriously, that is strange for sure, maybe it is so you lock it up and throw it in the corners on an oval track.
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Frankenstein57 on 2013-08-20 20:57
Look at the bright side, the disc swap is half done!
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Jeff Norwell on 2013-08-20 21:29
It doesn't matter.I have a very good front end to use...which I plan to do..... just found it very bizarre..............
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Ecode70D on 2013-08-20 21:44
Quote from: hiball3985 on 2013-08-20 20:20
Drivers left, drivers right? does that mean it has two steering columns  :003:

Seriously, that is strange for sure, maybe it is so you lock it up and throw it in the corners on an oval track.

   Jim
     I just got off the phone with Jeff in Canada and we were talking about this mixed brake situation on his car. If I had seen that about the 2 columns, I would have given Jeff "the business" and asked if he has two brake pedals.   I know that he can take a joke.
    All kidding aside.. The thing is that judging by the rust on the disc setup, his car had it on there  for a long time.   I see the flexible  brake line is hanging so I wonder if it was ever hooked up. Most likely someone started to make the change and never got around to finishing it.  We all know that it  would be a disaster if it was driven that way. 
     I sort of answered my own question because the pictures Jeff sent a few days ago of his firewall show the original stock single master cylinder.
    For whatever reason, the P.O. just never finished it.   

 
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: suede57ford on 2013-08-20 22:38
Isn't the steering wheel supposed to be on the right in Canada?
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: gasman826 on 2013-08-21 08:36
Granada swap started.  There's an example of the tie rod end being too large to tighten enough to install the cotter pin in the castle nut.

Kinda half full half empty thing.
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Jeff Norwell on 2013-08-21 09:07
Thanks Gary!!!
Title: Re: Very strange......
Post by: Ecode70D on 2013-08-21 11:01
Quote from: gasman826 on 2013-08-21 08:36
Granada swap started.  There's an example of the tie rod end being too large to tighten enough to install the cotter pin in the castle nut.

Kinda half full half empty thing.

Thanks Gary
     You have a good eye.  That accounts for the noticible  bad fit on the tie rod.
Jay