As we all know the F-100 shock mount for traditional hot rods has been a staple since the beginning. When building my coupe and the Gas De Naco sedan I wanted something that was close but just different enough to trip people up. Following photos are 47-55 first series chevy truck steering arm off the stock spindles. A little cutting and heating and you have something just a little different. For the naysayers that say you can't do this, I provide the following information. The last pic is the chrome ones on my personal coupe that have about 20,000 miles on them and have been absolutely trouble- with no issues at all. I will let the pics speak for themselves.
Did you fill weld and re-drill the tapered tie rod arm hole or just leave it? I am going to use cut off spindle arms to mount my rear shock lowers to my rear bones on my build so I'd like to know.
Man, those look great! And, reshaping them is no different than what is needed when installing a dropped axle in one of those pickups. Very cool!
And just like that, the price of AD truck steering arms go through the roof. Speedway will be repopping them by fall.
Hence why I was hesitant to make this post since it's been super cheap to buy the arms. As they say, sharing is caring.
Nice repurpose of the steering arms. As you said the price is way less than the popular F-1 mounts. Just technicality, the shock mounts that people use are the F-1 version, not the F-100. Also another source of the similar shape shock mounts are on the similar era Dodge trucks. Basically same shape as the F-1, the Dodge have a flattened mount on the end mounting hole about half thickness, whereas the Ford are full thickness
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