lowering 36

hi, i want to lower rear of my 36 coupe a little, anyone know how much the drop would be removing the two small leaves,including the leaf thickness thanks.

 

vic the leaves themselves will give you about 3/8", as for lowering when removing leaves, depends which leaves you lower as to how much support you loose.

would be better to fit a posies low reverse eye spring, or buy a main leaf only with reverse eyes, kerry tate can get them made up for you, reverse eyes will give you a drop of about 1.5"

 

When I was 13 I lowered my '35 Ford with 6" shackles, I am luck not to have killed myself. As Weemark stated a Posie low reverse eye spring is the way to go. At least to get 1 1/2" to 2" lower. Good luck, The FOGGER

 

Anyone got some pics of these springs installed, what about lowering the front?

 

I lowered the front of mine with a reversed eye spring from Posies.
Stock 38 Ford axle.
It's not super low, but the rear is kinda high so it works.

 

This is a reverse eye spring (adjustable by adding different center blocks) on the rear installed last summer.

 

Longer shackles will work without the death-sway if you at the same time add a panhard bar to control it.

 

Exactly what Ford did in 1942 when they stopped mounting the springs under tension as they has since 1909.

 

I installed the Posie's super slide on my coupe. It's pretty simple. And if I can say that, it really is pretty simple. I had a club mate do the welding. Pic......

 

Second that on the posies... my buddy put one in his and it was really smooth installation