Very EASY way to DROP Your early Mopar

never bottoms--can't remember moving shock mounts

 

Wow! Wish I would have seen this a year ago before I cut my springs. I will have to look at my 47 and see if it is the same but if memory serves me I have the same or similar a arm on my car. I cut a coil and a half out of mine and that was a half coil too much. I have spacers in the springs now so I want to replace the springs and maybe use this trick. Thanks for posting. Anyone have a set of springs their not using?

 

I'm about to try swapping out the stock springs with 1990 ford Aerostar springs I've heard it works great, and they can be had from rockauto.com for around 40.00 a set!

Great tech here again!

 

i have the springs out of my 40 ply right now so i took a quick look out of curiosity.
there looks to be roughly 3.25" from hard mount on arm to frame with the lower arm close to parallel with ground. the rubber snubber would be a bit taller, so less gap. moving the coil pad to the bottom of the arm looks to gain 3/4" or so. so i would expect you have 4" total clearance/travel less any drop, so something like 1 to 1.5" bump travel available without snubber? Am i missing something? seems like the camber would be out of whack also?

 

Let us know how that works, I'm curious if they are the same diameter...

 

this also works on 49 and up fords. jc whitney used to sell a kit that worked well....have done this many times, 2 to 3 drop with good ride!

 

wow just what a friend is looking for!! gott'a love the HAMB

 

They work. I just put them in a half hour ago! I got 'em on ebay for 35 a pair brand new with free shipping, and they're Moog, made in USA...


http://www.ebay.com/itm/CC850-Moog-...Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item257a0445de

 

Did u cut them at all I've got mine in the box I've just been too busy out of town with work to get em on!

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Nope, didn't cut them

 

Thanks for the info! I'm in the middle of rebuilding the front end of my '40 this winter. I have collected all the parts, upper and lower, including NOS lower control arms. I was planning to cut one coil from my stock springs, it looks like a 1" physical drop, unless the shorter spring compresses more? But now, after seeing this new method, whats a guy to do?

 

Incredibly easy,thanks for the tip.