1968 Chevelle Wagon - Long Roof Road Racer

Support the lower control arm with a floor jack and loosen the ball joint. With the castle nut still installed to keep the arm from springing open under force, a firm smack with a hammer usually will knock the ball joint loose and the spring can be pulled out.

The Edelbrock/Eibach springs (right, PN 5240) are considerably shorter and stiffer than the stock springs in this wagon so that made installing them very easy because they slipped right in place.

Don't forget to properly torque the castle nut and install a new cotter pin, which, ironically, was missing from this wagon when we started working on it.

Edelbrock's new tie rod adjusting sleeves (PN 5250) thread right on, replacing the originals. You'll want to closely duplicate your original measurements here and then have a professional alignment shop check it after.

Talk about bad alignment! We found that the driver's side outer tie rod was bent (who knows how or when), so a replacement was installed.

The adjustable upper rear control arms from Edelbrock (PN 5248) give you tremendous suspension tunability. They feature a spherical ball frame mount and work with stock or, better yet, polyurethane housing bushings in the rearend.

Edelbrock's tubular lower rear control arms add serious strength to the rear suspension. They come with polyurethane bushings installed and are a direct bolt-on.

Although we left them off for now, this is Edelbrock's trick traction bar (also called anti-hop bars) for coil-spring cars (PN 5213).

All control arm bushings get a liberal application of silicone grease, included with the Edelbrock kits, before assembly.

This is the tubular support brace (black diagonal bar, PN 5211) that Edelbrock designed to firm up the trailing arm's forward mounting point. It's an easy bolt-on with or without the Edelbrock suspension package.

The new coil springs from Edelbrock were designed to hold up the back end of a car, not a heavy wagon. We might add some coil spring spacers later on because the wagon rides very low in back.

Edelbrock's Performer IAS (Inertia Active System) shocks (PN 33016 front, 34016 rear) can switch instantly between a firm and soft circuit delivering both a smooth and great handling ride.

With the car up off the ground, the crew at Russell Performance (an Edelbrock company) installed these street-legal stainless steel braided brake lines to give a firmer pedal to this wagon.

Cragar SS wheels (16x8 with 4 3/4-inch backspacing, front and 17x9 with 5-inch backspacing, rear) and Nitto 450's (245/50-16 front and 275/50-17 rear) finish off the wagon's look and stance nicely.