i know none of you know my ability as a mechanic but how hard is it to rebuild the entire front end? i bought the whole kit from laurel mountain and was wanting to try the install myself. have never done anything like it. i did rebuild the rear end myself but i know that is much easier. its for a 64.5 this is what the kit includes...

2 Complete Upper Control Arms, with Ball Joints & Shafts installed, 2 Lower Control Arms, w/ Bushings & Ball Joint, 1 Set Strut Rod Bushings with washers & hardware, 1 Pair End Links, 1 Pair Sway Bar Bushings w/Brackets, 2 Coil Spring Insulators and 2 Coil Spring Saddles. Coil Springs, KYB Shocks, 1" Front Sway Bar, Tie Rods - (4 piece), Adjusting Sleeves - Tie Rods (1 pair) , Idler Arm, monte carlo bar and export brace. oh and my ssb disc brake kit.

 

With that kit it will be relatively easy. I did mine in a weekend by myself. Most of the time was spent cleaning and painting old parts and sheet metal. Just try to set the front end up as close as it was so when you take it to the alignment shop it is not a fight to drive.

 

never changed springs before though...im not sure how much a shop would charge me to install all of that

 

Get yourself a shop manual - canget on ebay for around $50 dollars. Also I bought "Mustang Restoration Handbook" by Don Taylor and Tom Wilson. Have a chapter on front end rebuild - pretty good. Not a difficult job plus if you do it yourself you can paint parts.

 

It easy to do, you just have to remember to get it aligned when you are all done.
Should only take you a weekend even though you have never done it before. Just make sure you have a pitman arm puller and an air hammer with pickle ford (or a manual pickle fork and a really big hammer) otherwise you will spin your wheels alot trying to get some stuff apart.

 

just remember to compress the springs. The control arm will come down some but their is still a good amount of pressure on that springs.

 

dont know what those are or what they are for, but i can go buy them...

 

yes this is the part i thought would be difficult. there is a tool that compresses the sring for you right?

 

no need to buy them go to autozone and rent them along with the spring compresser get the internal compresser not the two piece one for struts

 

I got a spring compressor from autozone and the threads stripped out on it while I was using it. That was dangerous. I ended up buying a the two peice setup from sears after i got rid of that auto zone compressor. Another tip is that if you want to use any part over again, dont use a pickle fork. It will ruin your joints and the dust boots everytime. My favorite was to just use a brass hammer and hit the joints until they came apart. It didnt hurt any joints or mess with any of the threads. There is a mustangs plus article that says the same thing.