i posted this up in the air ride group but i was wondering if any body new in here.little more traffic in this group. hey guys i have a 54 ford mainline,im gonna start baggin it,my question is i wanna use my stock control arms i heard you have to plate then to make them stronger.any pics floating around that would be great.also by using my stock front end will it lay out? any help would be great. thank you in advance.
How low are you wanting to make the front end ? We had a big , very long discussion on this very subject with a guy down in MD about a year ago . He was so sure about how this would be done no matter what we all told him that wouldn't work . He was told , as he tells us , that you could drop the frame down on the ground without a frame cut on the rear ! I think after too many of us telling him his design wouldn't work that he ended up laving . There really is no easy or sure way of doing this with stock parts since the upper and lower A arms are stamped steel . Not sure why you would need to weld another plate on it but that would cut your travel distance down I think . Many usually change the front ends to something else or get a kit to do it . I honestly don't think their will be a sure fix to get this done . If you do a search about a frame drop you might find that discussion and get some answers there . Jim
OK I found the post . I went through about 10 search and gave up . So I knew about when it was and started looking . I went through about 50+ pages and finally found it . Here if the link to the post and hope it will help with some things you will need to do to get it to the ground ! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=15159 Here is another good post from 2003 in air bags . http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5903 Jim
send me an email addy i'll send ya my pics of mine... it'll lay the frame & using stock a-arms but highly modified, prepare for a huge notch for your tie rods into the frame & Retro Jim is right notch is required for rear no matter what - i'm using 2600lb bags & they are flipping huge compared to the 2500lb bags (EDIT) i just looked, check out my photo album, there are couple of pics in there to get the idea of what we did even though it was in mock-up stages
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