Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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If every weekend were as productive as this one, Dan's car would be running in no time. We got some major stuff done Saturday and Sunday. Of course, we didn't leave the shop until 5:30 Sunday morning and went back again Sunday afternoon, but those hours really paid off.

We finally wrapped up mounting his quarter eliptic springs in the rear. He settled on one way of doing it, after rejecting about 10 different ways ( ) and got the brackets built and welded on. It works pretty well and gives him a bunch of ride height adjustment just by turning two bolts per side looser or tighter. Thank God that is finally out of the way.......I thought we were never going to get that task done.

Then we were able to mock the engine and tranny back on the frame and put the body back on temporarily to see where the car would sit. The bed was the last thing we got done, and it needed a c section taken out of each side for the rear axle assembly to go up into. Once the lower skirt was installed all the suspension is pretty well hidden from sight, but since he is going to leave all the workings exposed in the bed people will be able to see the entire rear suspension setup by looking into the bed .

The 1940 Ford wheels he bought on Ebay showed up Saturday and they are really nice. Tomorrow I have to take them and two others he has to the powder coaters to be coated black. The extra two wheels will mount some Hurst slicks that he will alternate using for shows and stuff.

So here are some pictures of what we ended up with tonight. We also sent his axles back to Moser to have them redrilled for a 5 on 5.5 pattern.

Don