Suspension

I had a crazy idea at the gym today, now its not for the dodge although thats what inspired it maybe the wife's F1. The go-to for lowering a truck is MII or some other coil-spring and A-arm set up and 4 link in the back, now this is left field but since 50s trucks have a solid axle couldn't you use something like the 25and 3500 Dodges you know coil-springs or coil overs or air-bags and upper and lower control arms and sway-bar ect. I don't see how it wouldn't work. Any Ideas?

 

Sure. They call it a 4 bar. Used on about 250,000 street rods. It wasn't popular until after the 60s, so it's "not traditional" by definition of the HAMB.

Don't say you don't care...

 

Actually for a lot of us an MII is not the go to, but that is a different argument all together.

No reason what you couldn't just use a pair of control arms and bags or coils or whatever you want to hold it up and a pan hard bar, like a truck arm rear only pointing forward. Ford kind of did that on the coil sprung trucks, the 4WD was not a twin I beam so in essence it was the same setup like I described with a live axle.

I would just about bet that if you looked real close at early '60s show rods you could find a set up kind if like that.

Now if you want to think different and interesting Roth and several others used modified volkswagon suspension with a beam axle in the '60s. A little off center but off center was the name of the game in the '60s.

 

thanks guys I get crazy ideas and if i don't bounce them off someone they become an obsession.

 

Stick around, SSD. You haven't even scratched the surface of crazy

 

Doane Spencer's 1948 MGTC had an Ardun V8 and a 4-bar front suspension. Built in 1948 at SoCal by him and Alex Xydias.

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