Technical Deep Drop Steering Arms?

Full disclosure, this is my first attempt at installing a dropped axle (4” drop, ‘28 Ford). I picked up a pair of dropped steering arms for cheap at a swap meet some time back but now that I am actually mocking things up I have hit a snag… Apparently I have arms for an approx 2” drop so I now know that I need different arms. This was not intended to be a budget build but at the present time finances require it be so. I am looking for advice and also hoping that one of y’all has a stainless pair you can sell me for cheap. (It never hurts to ask) In order to get this heap back into roller status I have reversed the arms so the tie rod is out in front of the axle. I don’t really have a problem with that but it will not work with the tube shocks. I realize that I could bend what I have but they would then be too short so that’s a no go. I’m using round back spindles that have had the original arms removed. Speedway sells some inexpensive flat stock arms but I’m trying for a little more class than that if I possibly can. FWIW I am (at least for now) retaining the stock wishbone. Thanks

 

Model A thru 1934 tie rods went OVER the radius arms. '35-'48 went under. I fought getting low enough drop arms on my '32 until I woke up and realized they went over the rods. Hope that helps. It did for me.

DAve

 

Check Roadster Supply. Ray has a large variety of bolt on steering arms and at the bottom of the page is a blueprint showing the dimensions plus the drop. Very helpful. I'm still buying good 37-40 Ford spindles for $150 here in the Midwest. All my cars run original spindles. Nothing beats a Henry part.

 

I will check all that stuff out, thanks. What I experience if I put the tire rod above the wishbone it hits the bottom of the frame.

 

I tried a pair of super deep drop bolt on arms designed to go under the wishbone when using a 4 inch Bell axle but I didn't like the reduced scrub line. After a few scrapes I took off the bones changed to hairpins and stock 37-40 spindles and solved my problems. This was on my daily driver deuce pickup.

 

Looking at The Roadster Supply site it didn’t take me long to see that one option is to use offset tie rod ends.