I tried this question on an antique auto site and have been completely ignored. I thought I'd try here as I know most here do their own work. For Christmas I'm bringing home my 1917 Maxwell Light Delivery truck to Georgia to start restoration at home. Both front axles that came with the truck have been collision damaged and I plan to take them to a local alignment shop to be straightened. Does anyone know if early cars had alignmen specs or is there a general setting most use on an early straight axle front end? Thanks and Merry Christmas, Howard Dennis
Merry Christmas Gudgyz, bet you've waited a while to respond to a Maxwell post, aye? Kool truck! I just found out mine is the only surviving 1917 Maxwell Commercial Ch***is known so far. What year is yours? Was it always a truck? Know of any rear axle parts for 1914-19 Maxwells available? Howard Dennis
,,,wuz it me ,I would take it to a TRUCK shop because they would have a better understanding of a straight axle setup, especially if they have been around a while,,my 2 cents
I worked for a place that had trucks with straight axels and we always went to truck repair shop . That was all they worked on !!! Never had any problems either .
Yea, each manufacture has there owns spec's. The latest copy of street Rodder has a this exact topic at a top level way's they used to correct Caster and other such things. is it a buggy spring or two parrellell springs or?
Merry Christmas and Thanks to all for responding. I had planned to take the axles to a truck place figuring they will have had the most recent experience with straight axles. I'll have to check out that issue of Street Rodder and see if there are specs that I should suggest they us. My Maxwell has two parallel springs on the front.
This 1917 has been in our family since the 20s now belongs to my uncle who made it into the roadster/speedster around 30 years ago.
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