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Technical I'm getting conflicting information on '30s Mopar lug bolt pattern

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Rickybop, Oct 16, 2024.

  1. Yeah, strap on skids in the front and winch it onto a trailer.
     
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  2. partsdawg
    Joined: Feb 12, 2006
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    partsdawg
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    I buy kids snow sleds at garage sales for $1 up here in snow country. Use them for everything from loading cars to dragging motorcycles with a locked up rear wheel at a swap meet. Handy when junking in the winter. Got a stack of them so when one breaks it's easily replaced. Prefer the older aluminum saucer style but folks want to much for them.
     
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  3. gene-koning
    Joined: Oct 28, 2016
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    Back in the 1920s & 30s, Dodge cars and trucks were a separate entity then the Chrysler or Plymouth cars, each was pretty much treated as their own company under the Chrysler banner. Hudson (that merged with Desoto before joining Chrysler in the mid 50s) wasn't even part of Chrysler then. Very little, if anything, interchanged. It wasn't until the mid 30s that some parts started interchanging, and that was pretty limited (suspension & brakes on some cars). Each division pretty much had their own motors up until the motor program got centralized in the early 60s

    Then you add that each individual company under the Chrysler banner had different cars in their perspective line up that probably didn't share many parts. Dodge had trucks, a small car, and a big car. Each had its own frame, suspension, and different body parts.
    In the Chrysler line up, there were two basic car lines, a big car (larger then the Dodge big car), and the limo/luxury huge cars. Plymouth was created to cover the need for cheap cars. They had small cars (smaller then the small Dodges), and they had the basic cheap small car.

    The fact that each division under the Chrysler banner had separate lines and different sized cars in there own division and then each division had different cars then the other divisions should make it easy to understand why no one knows if specific parts from one car fit something else.

    Any time you see Dodge, Plymouth, Chrysler and Desoto cars listed as Chrysler cars before WW2, most of the info there is going to be corrupted.
     
  4. Mr48chev
    Joined: Dec 28, 2007
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    A couple of Harbor Freight 1000 lb furniture dollys would slide under the front axle/springs and let you roll it out of the garage and after you raised it up a bit to back the trailer under the axle and dollys it would roll right up on the trailer. A few 2X boards on top of them would raise things up if needed. Or 4 pneumatic caster wheels and some lumber to have a larger and heavier dolly to stick under the front axle. 30 inches wide by about 18 inches should go under the axle and springs and if at lest two of them swivel you can direct it the way you want it to go.
     
  5. 31Apickup
    Joined: Nov 8, 2005
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    Hudson didn’t join Chrysler nor was it part of it prior, it merged with Nash in 1954 to form AMC.
    DeSoto was created in 1929 as a lower priced Chrysler, Plymouth created in 1928 as the low priced car with Dodge between Plymouth & DeSoto.
     

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