Hi everyone I have a 37 Buick im working on I was wondering how do I go about air bagging it immainly concerned about the front as the rear it has an s10 rear end the front of it has the original suspension set up. Please help me out thank you
You might want to give up a bit of an intro before you go plunging head long into help questions. Just sayin'. You would probably get a more congenial response. Good luck.
I know very little about bagging one but the 37 has a knee action front end which was a real brain fart. The upper shock arm(s) are also the upper A-frame. If dropped a bunch it might be a real h***le to correct the camber since there is little adjustment and moving the shock/A-frame would be a *****. A different front end set up might be the way to go. Ones smarter than me on bagging can give better advice. If you come up with something that works good let me know so I can **** can the knee action.
I sure will coilover I know a couple of people that air bag cars but I was wanting to do all the work myself but i'll keep you informed
MII front end not really the way I wanted to go I kinda wanted to keep it original I converted the front drum brakes to disc brakes thank you for the advice
This is the oldest vehicle I ever owned. I just drove it around a bunch because it was so cool, ran great, suicide doors, side-mount spare tire, and the back seat was really special.... Sold it with out doing much, it was at time in my life when resources were few. Good luck with the bags!
Thank you hd4unm I love my mistress my father in law and I are going to chop the roof 4 inches and of course im wanting to air bag it
Putting bags on the original front suspension would be a whole lot of work, for very limited effect or benefit.
Sounds like a fun project. Bound to help it go faster getting rid of some m*** and ground air resistance. Let me tell a true tale; mine was stock had it going close to 80mph there abouts, down a hill, and who would have thought that big long 4 piece hood could fly. It did. No warning, bounce lift or anything, just ****! Gone! ****er took off like a mad witch. Luckily it just barley brushed the roof of a vehicle behind me, didn't leave a scratch. It never occurred to me to check the hood mounts cause every time I lifted a side it just seemed to sit there normally as I can remember. So check all yer bolts
This is not gonna work as the B.O.P. front suspension for the 30s required a frame with "hips" where the front coil springs go...chevy used a "top hat" straight-rail frame that works great for aftermarket crossmembers to attach to. I did have a buddy who used a mustang II-style crossmember under his 37 Olds by slicing off the outer parts of the coil pockets and boxing them in with plate steel...a lotta work when he could have used a frame clip of retangular tubing to get the mustang-style crossmember to fit. You can still use the stock Buick upper control arms as arms only...not shocks by using light oil in them if they don't leak. Trim out the pockets to fit the bags and modify the lower arms to mount the bags. Then fab up some shock mounts to utilize modern tube shocks or use the bags with self-contained shocks in their middle...forget the name of them. Just don't put heavy oil in the existing Buick front shocks AND ad tube shocks. Photo of my old 41 Pontiac with a simple cut-coil job....original upper control arm shocks [same as your Buick] worked just fine even with 2 loops cut off the coils.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=324865 I was perusing Kustombuilder's thread and looking at my 38. I'll probably bag the stock stuff if I bag it
I chopped the front end off mine and welded 2x4 tubing to it then welded a mustang 2 suspension with air over shocks really low
Thanks for getting back. So few people do. It benefits everyone when a solution is found to a project problem. Good luck with the rest of your build.
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