Started pulling car apart and wood looks good and metal is all original pulled up trunk pan metal it was loose and even the wood under it looks good. The front suspension not real sure about was told its a moor drop axle? and pete and Jake parts. Not impressed with the steering when I ran it down the road, no idea what steering box this is. But set up is pretty squirrely steering. Any ideas a good upgrade keeping axle and springs?
[That's a pretty cool looking ride, I would not change anything except the SBC and drop an early Hemi in instead. The timber frames are always a challenge with these early Chev coupes. This was a 32 I saw at The Street Rod Nats at Easter. Very rare in this part of the world.
The axle looks like original Chevy, but the leaf springs have been changed/modified. Looks like a single leaf is all I can see without a higher res pic. Also the eyes look reversed. This will have caused the side-steer steering arm geometry to go out of whack, resulting in what you are experiencing. The horizontal steering arm needs to run parallel to the ground. A cross-steer setup is all that is going to solve your issue in my opinion, but explore the options.
Yea Im figuring to change the whole setup being driveable is most important to me, I'll explore some set ups and change it this winter. Not many pics of anything on these cars that I can find
I'm no expert on these old builds, I'm normally newer 60's muscle cars and vettes. I know this steering set up sucks' the drag link and arm don't work right. What would be my best route to take to make this thing handle better and still keep car old school hopefully straight axle etc?
Have not updated on here in a while been updating on the Termites thread. But chassis is boxed and everything finally done. Rear end set up, motor mounts, steering, bracing etc all fabricated and installed. Have a power vega box running a cross steer.
Brought my chassis back to my garage so now I can set the body back on and start locking wood in place and get everything lined up
Got a nice little 283 with 3 deuces sitting waiting to go in, but I actually joked about that with my Ford mechanic buddy.
Cross-steering is the way to go to eliminate "bumpsteer" which is what you experienced with the original setup. Reversed spring eyes threw the parallel geometry out the window. Power-steering wasn't necessary but adds to the comfort. Good luck.
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