broken 40 Ford rear bones....and a possible solution

The way I did mine with the Uni-Ball and the Hotrod Works torque rod should work like a torque tube would. The axle and the bones pivot from the same axis, the Uni-Ball and the rear spring both mounted in the center of the frame and moving as a unit and the torque rod taking the acceleration/deceleration forces.

 

Parallel split bones or trailing arms were used by people who seem to miss the issue of what happens when one rear wheel moves up or down, and tries to flex the rear axle housing.

Here is a 1962 magazine "tech" showing how to "ruin" the 1940 through 1950 Olds angled rear trailing arm design. These builders and the editor just plain don't get it, and worse yet, passed it out as good tech.

They split them only because it made the front arm mounts line up with the 33/34 Ford rear X member legs.

These Olds arms seem to be forerunners of the 60-72 Chevy truck/Nascar arms.

 

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What about Drake's system?
Does this help solve the split bones issue?
I figure you still need a torque arm.

1935-40 Ford
radius rod Mount kit
Use this kit to remount the radius rods on a 1935-40 Ford after removing the torque tube. Designed for 1935-40 Fords using the long radius rods, the new mount bolts to the frame cross-member and provides a pivoting mounting point for the stock radius rods. This kit can be used in conjunction with aftermarket center cross-member replacement kits. It is easily installed by drilling four mounting holes on the center cross-member and enlarging the radius rod mounting holes. For additional performance, we recommend the addition of the Torque Arm (HRW-1153 above).

http://www.bobdrake.com/Images/CAT27/CAT27_PDFs/374-379.pdf