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03-20-2004 08:36 AM #1
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Pick one IFS
I'm planning on putting a IFS on a 39 Chevy what would use
Hidit's or TCI.
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03-20-2004 09:09 AM #2
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Both good products (Total Cost Involved copied Heidt's), but I like Heidt's quality control better.Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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03-21-2004 05:44 AM #3
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Thanks for the info Bob
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03-27-2004 04:58 PM #4
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If your not looking for a show piece the fatmans kit are real good and they are priced better
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03-27-2004 05:05 PM #5
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I have heard complaints about Heidts and Fatmans............although, I have no experience with either.
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03-27-2004 08:08 PM #6
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My first choice would be Heidts.My last choice would be Fat Mans.
I have used Heidts quite a few times w/great results.Don Meyer, PhD-Mech Engr(48 GMC Trk/chopped/cab extended/caddy fins & a GM converted Rolls Royce Silver Shadow).
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03-28-2004 02:55 AM #7
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Heidt's definitely gets my vote, Fat Man stuff would be a ways down the list.Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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03-28-2004 05:30 AM #8
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Gimme some batwings and a split wishbone any day...
On a more serious note...I went to a shop that resurfaces clutch discs and got some little pucks made to repack my friction shocks. Loaded them up and dropped them back in. It took two or three long trips to get the front end to lose it's "memory" as they broke in.
The frictions are from a Morris commercial truck...year unknown...I just liked the castings and they make neat-o headlight stands.
Forgot to say...they are on my Rusty A.Ensure that the path of least resistance is not you...
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03-29-2004 09:24 PM #9
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I am wondering exactly how much welding is needed to install the new IFS. My welding skills are basically limited to burning myself so i was really hopeing there is a bolt on or atleast minimal welding.
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It takes welding skills with all of them that I know of, you have to attach the crossmember solidly to the frame. I may be wrong, I am using a stock pinto suspension my self with aftermarket spindles and larger disc's from Yogi's. It will work nicely with a tenth of the cost.Last edited by brickman; 04-10-2004 at 06:45 PM.
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04-10-2004 06:45 PM #11
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There are some bolt-in.....I thinf R&B made one.Don Meyer, PhD-Mech Engr(48 GMC Trk/chopped/cab extended/caddy fins & a GM converted Rolls Royce Silver Shadow).
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