Thread: 27 chevy p/u

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Hi Billy zz - I found your thread while reading Itoldyouso's thread "Project 3K is Underway". It's lookin' good so far and I like the fact that you are putting a Ford in a Chevy. Lord knows there have been enough Chevys put in Fords (my cars included). Also, it's good to see new people getting involved; a lot of us here are old-timers and we need some new blood to whom we can "pass the torch".

One quick piece of advice - strap your rear radius rods to your rear axle housing. That is, wrap a piece of flat steel around the rear axle housing and weld it to the radius rods and all the way around the rear axle. Those things are subjected to constant flexing and vibration and they will eventually break at or near the welds. I have seen this happen twice, once was on my son's sedan! He backed out of the drive way, put the car in drive and heard a rapid clunking sound as he was leaving. The rear axle had partly broken loose, rotated upward about 20 degrees and it destroyed the rear u-joint. Thankfully, he wasn't doing one of his usual smokey burnouts or it would have thrown the rear end out from under the car. The other one I saw this happen to did exactly that; it spun the rear axle right out from under the car and did considerable damage. I have attached a pic of one of the straps I put on my roadster when I was building the rear suspension. If you've already done this, disregard this post...