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Did you have to use spacers on your spreader bars? I bought some bob drake ones and they don't measure the correct length according to wescott's frame drawings. I don't remember how much they were short but if you bolted them between the rails it would be about 1/4 or so short of being the proper width.

Originally Posted by Uptown83

Did you have to use spacers on your spreader bars? I bought some bob drake ones and they don't measure the correct length according to wescott's frame drawings.

After market spreader bars are famous for being too short. They are made up to fit between any body's chassis rails ... and add a spacer. If they were the correct lenght ... they would not go in the frame of some after market frames. I have found that every after market 32 chassis I ever measured was 1/4 or more of a inch too narrrow. They are purposely built that way IMHO ... to help get the chassis under the after market fiberglass bodies. Fiberglass is thicker in that area and some fiberglass bodies will not sit down on a original 32 Ford Henry built chassis without grinding away . I had to add about 200 hundred thousand to my spreader bars. I am using a set of original frame rails that came under the 3W coupe. My original spreader bar fits perfect. It is just not stainless and shiny.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

If you don't mind a small comment . . . I noticed that there doesn't seem to be any flex tubing between the trans cooler lines and the frame. Are you concerned about the trans moving a little and stressing those lines?

Not really,
Factory GM cars and trucks do not have any flexiable junction ... and my 32 Roadster is done the exact same way as the 3W and I have over 50 thousand miles on it without a issue from the line.