1937 hudson terraplane rat

[suicide33plymouth]

Rear set up

I’ll post some pics tomorrow of the rear set up I’ve gone with . It’s a two link from a 60s truck instead of a triangulated 4 link .

 

[Torchie]

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Torchie

 

[DozerII]

Looking good. [P[P

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Here it is the rear set up

Two link off a 60s truck made to fit a 37 hudson .

 

[sneakysnake]

Are you going to run a panhard bar also?

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Yupp

It’s getting a pan hard bar for sure or if I wanna go hard I’ll do a watts link

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Next

Boxing plates fully welded in and tops of the mounts cut flush

 

[Torchie]

Looks Good. Very nice welds.
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Torchie

 

[Old Iron]

^^^X2^^^

 

[Burgerman]

^^^X2^^^

Agree. A pleasure to see. [cl

 

[kenny c]

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[suicide33plymouth]

Panhard bar

Decided to make a quick little pan hard bar today . It’s made out of 1 1/4 x .120 wall dom with heim joints and high angle spacers for the amount of travel this thing has .

 

[kenny c]

That's rugged.

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Body back on

The body is back on , frame welded, motor mounts welded, trans mount welded , rear two link welded in , now on to the floor support and sheet metal .

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Watts link

So the pan hard bar was bringing the rear end to far sideways when the car was put on the floor so I had to make a full custom watts link out of 3/16 plate and dom tubing and 2x2 1/4 square

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Watts link

The second picture is the rear end fully up as far as it will go in the frame and it has very very minimal side to side movement .

 

[suicide33plymouth]

Air bag mounts

So I made air bag brackets out of 3/16 plate and didn’t really get many pics besides this one that is them racked into place .

 

[kenny c]

Looks real good. I think you get the award for rugged and over built.[cl[cl[P