chevy front axle solutions

Has anyone ever made a bracket for a 1930's chevy front axle that sits where the leaf springs are connected and used a ford spring and wishbones. looking at my truck the other day i thought this might work. Any other ideas?

 

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No but I modified my axle and made brackets to mount it above the dual Chevy springs.

 

thanks kerry, but we thought that that would give us clearence problems. how is the clearence for yours.

 

I did re-arch the front springs some and reworked the front crossmember. It sit's right, even with the hemi, and rides right as well.

 

I saw an A coupe at a small car cruise a couple years ago that used what looked like a mid '60s Chevy van front axle with the setup you describe, using homemade transverse spring perches bolted to the original spring mounting pads on the axle.

 

thanks for the input but i think we are going to have the stock axle dropped and see where that puts us.

Eric

 

Somewhere I have photos (not digital) of a couple of rods that a guy (family) in Cle Elum Wa has built using a parallel leaf axle with a cross leaf spring. He built batwings that bolt to the axle.
I'll see if I can dig out and scan the photos when I get home.