I am getting ready to install the front end in my model a pickup and need to buy front perchs. Would like know to what brand are best , ch***is engineering has stainless, but would like forged steel if anyboby has good ones. Pete&jakes have adjustable forged ones but the plain ones are cast I believe. My axle is c.e. and its a spring over set up with batwings.
It depends, do you need to put shock mounts on the lower Part? Ifso you need the longer perch bolts. I have used CE stuff before, seems very good, nothing beats Henry's originals though.
Yes I do plan on lower shock mounts. I bought a forged axle and spindles and steering arms and do not want the perchs to be the weak link in the front end. I did a search and found a few broken perchs and want to try to get best ones I can. Thanks
Id like to know which company (if any?) makes forged ones as well! Original 32 ones are near impossible to find down here, and I need ones I can weld a shock attaching ball to, like the originals, for using lever shocks. would love a definitive answer to this.
Not trying to sway your opinion but my shop carries forged perches and if you are an alliance member you get a discount. heres the direct link. http://nineoninespeedshop.com/store.html#ecwid:category=2510118&mode=product&product=10931831
I'm not one to bad mouth any part that I don't no the history of. That being said, this is what I believe to be a SS perch mount that broke on my 34 P/U. I did not install it so it is possible that it was not tight enough. I personally blame the original installer and not the part. I have no idea why he stripped the threads off of the mount. I'm guessing that the the nut bottomed out with no more threads before it was tight enough to prevent any flexing or movement. That is the only excuse that I can come up with that explains how it could snap into two pieces inside the axle. I replaced it with cast steel perches. I'm a little leery of SS mounts now. I'm not the chicken little type and I understand that everything breaks but I'm more inclined to use cast steel parts rather than SS parts. JMHO Cast steel is not the same thing as cast iron that breaks easily.
I'd use orig Ford if they are long enough to reach through whatever combination of axle and bone thickness. I don't use the repro lower shock mounts either, so I don't need the real long repro perch bolts. I personally won't use a repro perch, or anything else repro, on suspension parts.
Well it looks like Pete&jakes are the only USA made ones, but they are not forged. If I use stock forged ones how do I mount lower end of shock? Any pictures of mount that works with batwings. Thanks
On old builds, they sometimes drilled a hole through the axle to bolt in a shock stud. On others, they welded a shock stud to the lower edge of the axle. I did the welded ones, it won't move around, or fall off...if my welds are ok
You can also build or buy shackles that have a hole on them for shocks, or go really old style and run Houdaille hydraulic rotary shocks off the stock ballstud!
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