1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[ScooterCO]

Super work on that body. Something I would like to mention is, you should install regular ball joints in place of the heims. Coming from a lot of off-road fab and wheeling experience, We use heims for off road use only! Anything streetable should run standard ball joints.
In my build currently I am looking a failure in my split rear bones as well. Might want to read the mentioned link on Jalopy Journal. I need to rethink my project now!
Keep the pictures coming!
Thanks for sharing.

[shawnlee28]

That looks like alot of fun!!!!!!!
It also looks very nice ,I like the extended look and how low it is.Very cool....
The pics ,make the track bar look close to the top of the rear end housing...........its probably just the angle of the pics...
Sure looks alot different than the original photos ,have you sent some to the person you purchased it from ,I am sure they would like them also.
Keep up the good work on the thread and the ride...and obove all ,keep posting the progress,I almost feel like working on my project after looking thru this thread
Its cool to see all the progress happen over just a few pages,really makes difference.

[Itoldyouso]

[QUOTE=ScooterCO] Something I would like to mention is, you should install regular ball joints in place of the heims. Coming from a lot of off-road fab and wheeling experience, We use heims for off road use only! Anything streetable should run standard ball joints.


I disagree completely. Spherical rod ends are perfectly fine for street use. You want to obviously use high quality ones, and put a large washer on the outside incase one fails, but they work fine. The majority of the kit car people like Total Performance, Speedway, etc use them exclusively on their hairpins. Admittedly rubber bushed ones give a little more vibration dampening, but on a rod that isn't particularly smooth riding anyway, the benefits are marginal at best.

They are all I have run for the last 20 years or so, and I find them safer than the old tie rod ends IMO because the socket can come out of a tie rod end (although rare) whereas a bolt passes all the way through a rod end. Tie rod ends were not designed to be used on the end of wishbones, but they are ok there and lots of guys use them for the true traditional look. Me, I would rather use rod ends and not worry about being 100 percent traditional.

Don