Thread: 1937 Plymouth 5 Window Coupe

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Just a couple of random thoughts.....

The driveshaft should be the last item you buy for the car. Put 1/2 tank of gas in it and have two people to sit in the front. Take the car to any business in town that has a drive-on lift. Push it on the lift, get the two passengers in the seat and get underneath to take your readings with an angle finder and tape measure.

If you haven't done it yet, jack the car up on a flat, level floor and drop some plumb bobs down to the floor from the vicinity of each wheel. Use factory brackets, holes, whatever to drop from. Establish a centerline and measure between the marks on the floor to insure that the whole mess is square.

Extend the exhaust pipes out past the rear bumper. Terminating them under the car with produce a drone of the exhaust note against the underside sheet metal of the car and will make you nuts pretty quickly. You will begin to hate driving the car. Been there, done that.

If you still have the address of the fellows who put the MII front suspension under the car, send them a bottle of wine and a thank you note. They had the good sense to retain the strut rod instead of going with one of those fosdick aftermarket kits with the strut rod eliminator. This front end you have under the Plymouth WILL NOT fold up on you like some of that aftermarket junk. Famed automotive journalist Pat Ganaal has stated that he sees several hundred failed front suspensions each year on rod runs.

Merry Christmas
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