Before I really got started on the transformation I had to make her more road worthy, more show car like
Brakes sucked so I switched to discs from drums in the rear for only $78. My hard lines were rusted so bad I had the rear’s disconnected so new ones were in order, $12. Even did all 4 flex lines too. Then on to suspension and a little light cleaning. Changed out front spring/strut to SHO/Police spec units for $120. All Taurus sit kinda low in the rear and mine had even rusted to the point of full coils breaking off!!! See pic of springs below. So I got inventive and swapped out the rear coils for the front original coils off my SS Camaro. Yup, Camaro springs, why not Next was steering, mind you nothing was bad, just 233k old. I swapped the intermediate steering shaft, both lines, pump and even the entire rack and pinion!!! All for about $75 and got it aligned for another $75. Did I mention working on Ford’s is cheap? Oh, nothing needed on engine transmission, why would there be
