Yes they will. You should get everything off the donor car and I mean everything from the proportioning valve forward. It will still be cheap. I don't know about the Vac Booster. I don't know why they would be any different than the ones that come on a Chevelle. An A Body is an A Body. However, I got mine off a 69 Chevelle. If you have drums on your car, you will have to change the hard line that goes behind the engine crossmember as well as the short line on the driver side(they are a smaller diameter), you will have to change the the lines from the frame rails to the caliper also. I put the brakes from a junked 72 Vista Cruiser on my 67 El Camino. Any A Body with disks will work. They are all the same up through 72 (direct fit). Stay away from the multi piston caliper however. They had some problems. Also get the later one piece rotors.
I've seen the results of someone beating the spindles to break them loose from the ball joints as described in this post. You should avoid that if at all possible. Distorting the taper in the spindle could result in a broken ball joint stud that would at the very least, send you on a one way ticket into the fence, and at the worst, over that cliff in dead mans corner. You get the idea I hope. You can rent the forks from a tool rental place or from someplace like Checker Auto Parts. The Eastwood Company has a screw type separator that presses them out, one against the other. I've got one of these that works like a champ and you don't mess up the protective boots. It will be hard to keep from messing up the boots with the fork. If you intend to use the ball joints already in the car, you can buy polyurethane replacement boots from one of the mail order suspension places advertized in the car magazines. They are far superior to the OE boots. The lower poly boots are easier to install and the uppers will stay in place because they don't use those funky stamped retainers that come with replacement joints. The boots that come with replacement ball joints are junk, especially the uppers. Any questions, email me at
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