need some pics of 35-40 frontend using stock wishbones split

[Brooding Swede]

I'm workin on my truck day and night and its starting to piss me off. I need some tips on the spliting the wish bones at the X-member, then bending the spring hangers. I need to keep evey thing square. Been thinking about welding it straight and never turning..........BS http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[bdrake]

I did mine with the frame upside down. I used a Chassis Engineering kit so the new trans mount was bolted in first. Next I cut off the ball, just enough to remove the ball and leaving the bones long. The axle was attached to the bones, spring set in place and then mocked the axle into place. Now I could swing the bones to the mounts to get my final cutting mark. My threaded tube was smaller in diameter than the inside of my bones so a three inch long by quarter inch wide slot was cut in each tube along the seam. At the end of each slot a short perpendicular cut was made making a letter T. The tubes were then heated and formed to fit tightly around the threaded tube before welding it in place. Then bones were reattached to the axle and mocked back in place. Finally with a helper or two, the spring ends of the bones are heated and bent into place.

There are a couple pics of my process here (http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bill/1937pu/) in Part V.

[Petejoe]

http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/FH_images/FH_chassis-pics/Flathead_Suspension_1932-37passngr.jpg http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/FH_images/FH_chassis-pics/Flathead_Suspension_1938to41pass-comm.jpg

[Morrisman]

bdrake,
Hey I like the way them hairpins are mounted at the back end. I did mine a similar way but musta had a brain lock that day as I made a sort of box shape hanging down and mounted the rod ends sideways on, instead of doing like you did and getting them nice and flush and tidy looking. Damn, it's pretty much too late to change now, as my chassis is all assembled and rough painted. Maybe next time its apart.

[Brooding Swede]

Thanks alot , Great site. It was very helpful. Later, BS http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Brooding Swede]

Thanks, Petejoe