Does anyone make a dropped steering arm that will work with a 4" dropped axle and split wishbones? Thanks in advance. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
Depends on the bones. If you are using 35 thru 48 bones most of the like year deep dropped bolt on arms offered by many vendors will work. If your using A thru 34 bones I know of no available arms with quite enough drop, the same deep dropped bolt on arms will need tweaked.
thanks for the replies. my bones are from speedway, not sure what year break they are patterned from. i will check CE to see if they have anything. will it screw up the geometry if i tweak my steering arms a bit? i dont really want to cut and sleeve an oval hole in my bones if i dont have to.
I did a customer chassis using the Speedway bones and used the deep drop arms from So-Cal with no mods as I like the thru bolt design. CE's are similar just don't flow as nice. I'm also assuming the deep drop arms from Speedway will work as well.
I used these from socal speed shop. 4" super bell axle with '37 split bones. http://www.socalsac.com/SO-CAL-Front-Deep-Dropped-Spindle-Steering-Arms-p/socal001264.htm And they use THROUGH bolts, dont use the ones that are tapped.
Thanks for the replies. I was looking at the SoCal deep drop arms but didn't want to pony up that much if there wasn't a chance they would work. I'm not planning on bargain shopping steering parts but why is the idea of a tapped arm not such a good idea? Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
I just installed the tapped style on my roadster and on the first drive the drivers side about fell out. all the threads were stripped. so I now purchased the socal thru bolt. they look awesome and I will feel safer for sure. lucky It was at low speed around the neighborhood.
Would it have mattered, if it had been a spring behind set up? I'm trying to keep from running my steering arms in front of the axle.
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