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All the wheel and axle bearings have been changed. The seals and gaskets have been changed too. And the fluid in the differential is new. The drums appear to be the correct drums and appear to be the ones that are original to the car.

1. When I purchased the car I didn’t really drive it because it need a total brake and suspension etc overhaul. When I bought it, the rear left brake shoes which is the side I am having trouble with actually had a crack right in the middle of the shoe. 2. After getting the car road worthy, the...

The mechanic says the wheel bearing is fine and it is new as well. This is what has been extremely confusing as according to him everything is fine, so I am not sure where the trouble is coming from?

Yes unfortunately this brake line was very poorly done by the first mechanic, but I just had my good mechanic who does restorations change all the brake lines from front to back. He made them from stainless steel and are much better than the cheap ones in the photo.

I forgot to mention in my last response that whenever I swapped to a different brand of parts like the hardware for example I made sure to replace all 4 sides. And after it would get hot, me and my mechanic took off the wheel and were surprised to see that the drum wasn’t too tight nor was...

Yeah in terms of the parts, I have replaced every single component on all 4 wheels. Including the adjuster screw. Like you have mentioned, I will try swapping the left drum over to the right side to see if it causes a problem on the right.

This is a photo of the first time I noticed it, last time was worse as I took it on a longer drive. 3 different mechanics adjusted the brakes so I highly doubt all of them don’t know how to adjust them especially since the last one does nothing but classic car restorations for the last 40 years...

There are actually no symptoms such as pulling or anything like that, the only thing I noticed that when it starts to get hot it makes a squealing sound. I noticed it gets hot about driving 30 minutes or so after driving on the highway under very normal conditions. And even when driving it I am...

Looking for some input here, I’ve been going around in circles with this issue, my ‘65 Imperial’s left rear drum keeps overheating and destroying the brake shoes, I have rebuilt the booster, changed wheel cylinders from different brands multiple times, tried two different brands of brake shoes...

My ‘65 Imperial rag joint/steering coupler just recently went out leading to the steering binding and some popping noises. I’ve been looking for a couple online and saw several, I did find one from Lares (part number 3575303) on classic industries as well as another on Mopar mall. The Mopar mall...

That’s what I was thinking too.

Very helpful. The remanufactured starters seem to be very much a hit and miss.

It seems I am going to stick to my old starter as it seems to be working okay for now.

Looking to see what anybody would recommend as a replacement starter for my ‘65 Imperial? Was wondering mostly about those performance/mini starters such as the powermaster or other brands.

It’s actually welded to the frame. The only thing that used to sit there was the center bearing for the driveshaft. But I am not really sure if it’s structural or not. I was thinking of keeping it in place, but just cutting the middle piece and have it lowered a bit.

Well I am back again with another problem on my ‘65 Imperial. I recently had to switch to a one piece driveshaft after having a hard time finding the necessary parts to repair my two piece driveshaft which was in pretty bad shape. Even the driveshaft shop that I took it to, which is very well...

Interesting…. wonder why mine is black then. Probably somebody ended up painting it at one point.

Totally agree with you on the contrast thing, I am not a fan for the majority of engine components to be a single color. I’ve seen it many times where people paint every single component on the engine the same color as the engine.

I had the engine rebuilt on my ‘65 Imperial and my balancer was in pretty bad shape. I got myself a new balancer, but was wondering if it was painted the engine color (turquoise) or black? The reason I am asking this is, the balancer that I took off my car is black and it definitely looked like...

The number on it is P1 22978. Barely anything shows up related to it. I do not believe it is a Chrysler part.