Thread: Am I in trouble here?

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Originally Posted by IC2

You have no idea what kind of roads we have up here in the North Woods - especially after a nasty winter. You have to drive like a slalom racer to miss the foot deep pot holes

i do allways tell any new guys with low cars or deep oil pans to put one tire over the man hole covers and not center up on one the roads in town here are very bad. there nothing like the sound of hitting bottom i spent many hours re working inners on the chevy just took one time to F#ck them up was going down a road that they did not post that they milled off the top 4inch+ of top coat off and it was at night so i never see the drop off

YOU know ... deep down ... that the front end will SETTLE down some ...
after a few hundred miles ...

IF you ended up where you are, I think you would be OK
but as a starting point ... TROUBLE ... IHMO.

That's like a voice rumbling down from out of the clouds!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by techinspector1

That's like a voice rumbling down from out of the clouds!!!!!!!

If you look CLOSELY the 1932 3W sits a little higher than the 1932 roadster ...

They both have the same spring, same axle ... same tires ... everything is the exact same .... EXCEPT ... the 3W has almost no miles on it ... so it has not yet settled down any.



The roadster settled down about 3/4 of a inch after 500 / 600 miles. It now has 52 thousand miles.

Good grief - bolts of lightning are coming out of the sky.

1. I built the chassis per the TCI build sheet !
2. This isn't my first car ! I'm not a newbie - honest!! (tho it's the first from this many bits and pieces)
3. I feel like I'm in trouble with that piece of tin
4. I'm gonna try to raise it a bit. If I can't, then the splash shield will become history - one way or another !
5. I do have an oil pan souvenir from an earlier car that weeps oil from a speed bump scrape - so am all to well aware of ride height
6. I did take my fancy deep trans pan off BEFORE it became aluminum scrap - it was even lower.

You guys are mean !!!!

I'd have to measure for sure, but I think my front valance on my 34 is about that low and I have had no problems other than my own stupidity (like rolling into a parking lot concrete tire bumper )

Originally Posted by mopar34

I'd have to measure for sure, but I think my front valance on my 34 is about that low and I have had no problems other than my own stupidity (like rolling into a parking lot concrete tire bumper )

Yeah,Bob, but I recall that you live in PA where the DOT is so good that road kill has center lines painted on it. Here in NY the roads are bad and since our "good" governor will be giving the pink slip to 9000 state workers, they wont get better.

Comeon Dave, man up!! My ol' '39 Chev only had 1 5/8" at the bottom of the grille! Sure, had to avoid man hole covers and speed bumps, take drive ramps at an angle.........but hey, Praise the Lowered! Every worm for himself!!!

Dave, NY can't be laying off 9000 DOT workers! Their the only essential employees that the state has.

PA highways didn't get the reputation of being the worse in the nation by the Association of American Truckers for nothing, ya know!