So the story goes if you bag your 49 / 51 Mercury and want it to be able to lay frame you need to cut out the factory floor pans in the rear seat and trunk pan to clear the upper bars on a 4 link kit, U notch, bag mounts and tunnel the floor pan for drive shaft clearnce. Well here is a 51 Mercury that just came to us to undo all of the above yet still have bags and lay frame. It came to us with an aftermarket box tube frame that used the normal trianglated 4 bar set up with bags mounted on top of rear axel. To install this aftermarket frame under this 51 Mercury someone cut out the whole rear seat and trunk floor pans . We have removed the aftermarket frame and installed one of our frames under this 51 and have remade all the rear seat and trunk pans close to factory. We did have to raise the trunk floor over the rear axel 2" as this car will have 30" tall tires in the rear. Rick Erickson of Extreme Kustoms
Looks real good! I have a question about the pinion angle? Looks real bad? Is it a 2 link? That would make sense. At least a little.
Yes it's a 2 link. When lowered to the max like in the pic's the pinion to driveshaft angle is neg 6 deg. With frame lifted fully up about 10" the pinion angle is neg 2 deg. That's not bad at all just look at some lifted 4x4 and at ride height its around neg 3 to 4 deg. Rick Erickson of Extreme Kustoms
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