A buddy gave me a 38 plymouth axel. I have mixed feelings about it. Looks kinda cool, but I have enough parts to build the rest of my cars. So I'm not sure if I should add it to my stash. Are the orig brakes OK? Easy upgrades?
It was free and it won't take up much space, but, if you don't want it then p*** it on to someone who does, or at least has space to store it for the next guy in line. If you're headed South then drop it off at my place.... .
They were reasonably popular on drag cars long ago. It would be traditional if you can't find a V8-60 axle and care about such stuff.
Useless junk... The brakes work great, however, I should say that since I couldn't find reasonably priced wheel cylinders, I modified my backing plates to fit early ford ones. Wheel bolt pattern is 5 on 4.5".
Just for the different factor, makes them desirable in my mind. King pins are a couple thousands smaller then fords, they can be hand reamed at home. Some people say the ford kingpin inclination is different if it is a truck alignment shop can bend to correct inclination. Doing the reaming allowed me to put 1949 Ford F-1 spindles on the axel, which will allow me to put common disc brake kits on. Good luck
There is some historic land speed racing precedence also, if that helps you... Hell, the arguably most famous hot rod roadster of all time ran one for a while... with dropped ford ends welded on!
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