Hey guys, wanted to get some opinions. I'm building a T-Bucket and had an off the wall idea.

For my straight axle front end I'm thinking about building it from scratch. My cousin is set up to bend 1 3/4" tube so I would get him to bend the drop in some tube and cope the ends. I can have a machinist at work to machine some round bar to accept Ford king pins. Then have one of the certified welders at work can weld the ends on the tube. If he is off a little on the camber we can rebend to correct the angle. He would have to get both ends timed correctly though. Then I just pull the spindles of a mid 70's Ford 1/2 ton. Buy new king pins for said truck and put it together. Rebuild the brakes, paint and its ready

May sound crazy but I'd always rather do it myself when I can. Beside I like the idea of the truck spindles, can't by an axle for them. On top of all that it urks me to spend $200 on an after market axle made of less than $25 worth of material, built with jigs in a rate of probably several an hour.