Been lurking for a while as I shopped for a car. About a month ago I purchased a 68 400 4spd convertible. Its a driver quality but I think its pretty nice and it sure is a hell of a lot of fun. Previous owner did quite a bit of work to it (new interior, borg warner 5 speed, new subframe, plus other stuff). I'll post the pictures as soon as I find a place to host them.
The car has a couple of issues so I'm hoping to get you guys' sage advice as I work my way through everything.
Anyway, first up is a surprise subframe issue - at least I'm pretty sure its a subframe issue. Turns out the right front tire is rubbing against the outside rear render well in a sharp right turn (outside edge of the tread). Its noisy when it happens, and its weird because I didn't notice it until after I'd already bought the car and was loading it on the truck for shipping a few days later. Sigh.
So now I have it in my local shop to work out a few kinks, and my guy is telling me that the replaced subframe is somehow not straight - ie shifted to the right a bit (measured 1/2 inch). Which is resulting in the right front tire sitting further back in the well than the left front tire, thus causing the rubbing. So my question is - instead of a costly new subframe replacement, is it reasonable to think that a frame shop but be able to pull it just a bit to get the right tire to clear wheel well? The car drives otheriwse very well imo.
Also, follow up question: the car came to me with Cragar SS 14x7s (numbers on the boxes are 5 x 4.5,4.75,5) Also the box says +3 std. Tires are BFG TA 225 70 r14. I also got the supposedly original Ralley II's (which I need to verify codes on). We swapped the wheels back to the Rally's on the front to see if it made any difference in the rubbing, and the Rally's wouldn't clear the calipers (orig disc brake car) without the spacers they had in there for the Cragars. Does this make any sense? The calipers look correct, but I'm having the whole brake system redone (new rotors, calipers, drums, shoes, lines, etc) so wondering if I should maybe be looking at a smaller/different caliper?
My whole goal in this exercise is just to get the rubbing to go away as easily as possible so I can spend some quality time driving the car and then decide what i ultimately want to do about the subframe later down the road.
