Thread: 1941 Ford truck 4 Wheel Drive possibilities

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Originally Posted by Zandoz

Actually, in most cases I agree with you. But in this case, with the amount of surgery that would be required on the original '41 chassis, I'd prefer saving the original and cutting up a Ranger chassis.

In all reality, I can't see where you're going to be chopping much of anything besides the X member. The front suspension would be under the frame or if you went with an IFS, the diff assembly can go in with maybe some notches in the lower rails to acheive a closer to the ground stance. On the rear use outboard springs instead of the factory spring set up. And if a guy uses leaf springs front and rear, major cutting would not be needed. When I was in high school we took a 40 Ford truck right out of a junk yard and made it 4x4 and stuffed a 390 C6 NP205 combo in it and that truck had 33's on it. My friend mud raced it until he moved on to swamp racing. I wish I had some pics of that truck. It was pretty sweet.