i have seen recently pictures of a couple of 30-31 model A's that are placing the spring on top of the crossmember and attaching it to the hairpins. i have never seen any detail shots of this, and i do not know what i will have to do to set it up. it looks to me like ill have to cut the front framehorns off, flatten the spring crossmember, and build a couple of mounts onto my haripins. do i need to use shackles, or do i go directly to the hairpins? what kind of spring do i need? and do i mount the spring with the odl style C bolts, or is there a stronger way to mount it? lastly, will split wishbeones be strong enough to support this style, or will i need to break down and build hairpins. feel free to offer any suggestions. id also like to see some detail shots if anyone has some. attahed is the inspiration for my madness. thanks, guys. Michael
thats jimmy "shine"'s pickup at so-cal speed shop in califonia.he is a really cool guy,contact him,he may be able to send you some pics of how he did his front end. www.so-calspeedshop.com -danny
A lot of people have done this. And there are lots of ways to do it. Probably the safest and easiest to follow example was built by 60's Style and documented in the build of his little RPU. Bleed built some nice mounts like this (for his truck?) and Lukester did something similar to the Shine truck by mounting them to his hairpins. A little confused by your "spring on top of the crossmember" comment. The spring usually stays where it is. Just try to keep track of what you are building with and how much drop you're going to get. If you flatten the crossmember, hang the spring from the bones/hairpins, use a reverse eyed spring, and a dropped axle, it could be way too much. Just start looking at pictures more closely. It's all right there in the open to study.
use the search function and key word suicide like Kevin said, there have been several very different ways of doing this posted the simplest might be to buy bat wings and hairpins chop the stock crossmember off and replace with a tube and perch
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