Now that it’s warming up a bit I’m back on the 37 again. The Mustang II front end was already installed when I bought the 37. The previous owner had used a burned up Mustang II as a donor and transferred the suspension components….. worn out ball joints, bushings, calipers, springs and all to the truck.



I kept putting off rebuilding the front suspension using the excuse that I wanted the full weight (engine, transmission etc ) on the front end so I could get the correct front springs in it. Anyway I’ve run out of excuses so it’s time to rebuild the suspension. Rebuilding control arms is not my favorite job by any stretch of the imagination but being basically cheap and having the time and tools I ordered bushings and ball joints rather than a new set of control arms.

My luck held true to form. One of the upper control turned out to be bent. Of course I didn’t pick up on that until after I had spent an hour knocking the ball joint and bushings out of it.



I had given Dave my spare set of used Mustang II control arms for his project a while back but he had mentioned that for the difference in cost between buying the parts to rebuild them (not to mention the time and effort) he was just going to order new ones when the time came. Anyway I ended up picking the upper control arms back up and used them. I finished up the arms yesterday, so at least that’s one job down.



Today will probably be spent getting the holes cut in the upper spring pockets so I can get the ride height adjusters installed.



Once that’s all done I’ll be able to get it back together and do the brake conversion. I’m going from the 9” rotors to 11” which should finish up what I need to do on the front suspension.



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