Help/Advice, or tell me to rethink it all

[pistolpete]

Wondering what issues I may run into here, or am I over thinking. What I want to do is use a '40 Ford axle and wishbone, hack off the spring mounts on the wishbones, and run a spring over the axle. I can not locate a spring perch that says specifically that it will work with the '40 axle and wishbone, but I assume that it would be similar to using a '32 style perch on '40 split bones as has been suggested to me before.

I want to try to build the car without splitting the wishbones at all. Just trying to figure out if it is possible, and then round up the last couple peices I need for my front suspension.

Specifics, '30 Tudor, looking for a flathead & tranny (thats a thread for itself), '40 front axle dropped 3-4", '40 rear axle with a 2-3" drop on the rear crossmember. Thanks,

 

[Blue Eyed Devil]

A spring perch designed for a early spring over axle will work fine with your '40 axle and bones with the proper length spring. You are going to run into issues with dropping the axle and not splitting the bones though. Why are you wanting to keep them intact?

 

[donsrods]

You are going to run into problems trying to find a spring the proper width to fit. The stock spring will be too wide and the ones used for 32 Ford type applications will be too narrow. You can have a custom spring made at a truck type spring shop, but they ain't cheap. Last time I had just a main leaf made it was $ 120.00 for that one leaf.

Don

 

[pistolpete]

Not sure why I am thinking I want to keep them intact, was just the current train of thought. I guess probably the smater way to go here will be split the bones, and run a dropped A axle. After talking to a local guy last night about what I was thinking he had the same consensus.