spring in front on a highboy?

[Tim]

im looking at running the full 39/40 suspension on a model A highboy

well low boy realy i guess

what are some of the ways i could get around the aquard look and still have it be low? will that spring be low enough or will i end up taking leafs out or?

had a 48? set up mocked up on my last 29 and it was like monster truck high


keep in mind this is college student broke budjet minded


tia
tim

[Tim]

side note: not "mid west low" just not sky scrapper

[thirtytwo]

im not fond of the way it looks , i had an old rod done that way it bugged me everytime i looked at itbest way with a stock axle is somesort of suicide style

av8 --likes the spring infront though hes got some pics of some that are exicuted fairly well ,im syre he'll chime in fairly soon you can see for yourself if you like the way it looks

youll have to take out most the leaves

[Bruce Lancaster]

A possibility is to mount the spring in front of the crossmember so that the axle is beneath the crossmember in essentially original A location. The mount typically is essentially a plate mounted atop the crossmember where the original U bolts go, suitably braced. This raises a new set of problems that are mostly aesthetic: What to do with the spring hanging out there where the lower part of the Radiator shell normally lives? On fendered A's and '32's, some people simply covered the frame horns from side to side with sheetmetal.

[Tim]

would like to end up wiht a stance about like this

[Tim]

form the rear-differnt car-

[Bigcheese327]

That Deuce is a spring-in-front? Wow, you'd never tell! I'm impressed.

Pardon me, "those Deuces."

[Tim]

no idea if they are spring in front i just thought the pix would show good example of what height im talking about wanting

[Detonator]

REAL nice 5 window. I wouldn't call it especially low, though. 99% sure it has a spring-on-top-of-axle set up -- which is probably the way you want to go. If you're running a Deuce chassis, put an A front cross member in it. That, with a dropped axle and reversed eye spring will get you that coupe's stance. If you're running an A chassis, Speedway makes a flat front cross member that will help bring down that front end. I put one in my roadster, but note that you'll also have to modify your radiator at the bottom to fit.

[Tim]

-- again pix just for example of height i want, i changed my mind after looking threw pix of all my fav cars and decided maybe "midwest low" just isnt for me

i think ive figured out what im going to do but still trying to come up with a way around the radiator


maybe a under the spring bulldog mount and a shortend mustang rad?



like this?

[av8]

Great look and great ride . . .

[av8]

Sideview looks good . . .

[av8]

. . . and still good from this angle.

[Paul]

av8,

any pictures of the spring mount it's self?

Paul

[Rainer]

I have a 32 frame with A crossmember and reversed eye spring -- good stance for me

http://www.hepdemons.com/roadster.jpg

[Tim]

any more pix of the -- or similairset ups- of the black roadster????? like frame pix with the hood out of the way so i can see things a touch beter?

it doesnt need to be quite that low, and i cant afford to go for a dropped axel, could i get a fair amount of drop removing leafs out of the pack and maybe some different shackles?

trying to keep it low buck cus im broke

tia

tim

[Tim]

to the top

[av8]

This is the best I can do.

[Tim]

thanx, i think i got it figured out