Hi, Great forum here, lots of wonderful information. We have a 1932 Ford Roadster we're in the process of building, and need some advice on the rear wishbone setup. In a nutshell: what is the best way to mount both rear wishbones to the frame? We're planning on cutting off about 4 inches of the wishbone ends which will mount to the chassis. We would prefer not to bend the wishbones. Any information to get us started on setting up our rear wishbones would be greatly appreciated!
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yeah, the stock design works great and splitting them will cause it to bind without a slip joint in the torque tube
Again, not enough information. What rearend? Early Ford closed drive banjo style, 8" Ford, 57 Chevy, 59 Oldsmobile, 9" Ford ? What wishbones? Original 32s (forget that), 35-36 with integral rear spring mount, home or shop made radius rods(hairpins, ladder bars)? What rear suspension? 32-34 original curved spring, 35-40 straight spring, Model A "high-arch" spring, coil-over shocks, coil springs?
We are running a late 40's banjo with stock bones and stock spring set up with some of the leaves removed - got 5 leaves in there now to get the rear end down. Removed the torque tube to run a T5 and added the open drive kit from SpeedWay (kool and well made unit here). Shortened the bones with a weld in bung and Ford style tie rod ends. Want to keep our triangulation and don't want to bend these out to the frame rails. We will fab an additional cross member to accept the ends. The bones are pointing at approximately where the U joint will be at the end of the tranny. Will position this up/down where our banjo pinion is at 3-5% up. Probably make our new cross member out of 1/4" plate and run it from side to side in the frame. This will have a drop center to clear the drive shaft. May run the"drop" up rather than down so not as visible from the side view once the car is togeather. Another trip to the fabricator who made our rear tranny cross member. Any ideas on this? Thanks......................RuffDawg
They are called "trailing arms" people, '32 Ford only had one wishbone, it was in the front. If you are going to cut the trailing arms, and run an open drive line, you need to realize that you will need to add 2 more trailing arms or buy a 4 link kit or rear hairpins...... without this stabilization of that rear end... it will TWIST on you when torque is applied. (because you have eliminated the "torque tube") Good luck.
Have A 32 Sedan That Has Trailing Arms Mounted To The Frame And Coil Over Shocks.the Trailing Arms Are Mounted Like Traction Masters Of Old But Pinion On Both Ends.have An 8 Inch Rear End.
Front "wishbone" assemblies are front radius rods. Rear radius rods are rear radius rods. "Trailing arms" are those short thingies on VW Bug front ends before the Supers that run between the spindles and the torsion spring tubes.
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