More questions from an ameture

[blacksheep]

Ok, so I'm setting up my rear end on the bucket truck right?. It is driving me nuts. I will explain what I have so far. Last week I tacked the rear spring pivots onto the rear axle,after setting the rear pinion at 3* up. I connected my radius rods to the frame and dropped her on the springs. I noticed that the frame was setting leaning to one side, and that my shackles allowed the spring to hit the pivots when we stand on the frame. Ok, I said well maybe I don't have the spring pivots out far enough on the axle. I cut the spring pivots loose and turned the pivots at about 30* out, mainly because I don't have enough room before they hit the radius rods. So, I tacked that together and I noticed that the frame is leaning once again,but that the shackles are slightly pointing at the ground.So, before I went in the house I took the radius rods loose from the frame, and I noticed that one rod seems to be out of adjustment higher than the other one. I plan on adjusting both rods to where they both allow the bolt to just slip into the frame instead of one being hard to get in. Could this be the cause for the slight lean?. I took a reading on the frame once I let the radius rods loose last night and the frame popped back to level.I am about to just throw the buggy spring in the weeds and use coil overs. I am learning alot here on cars. With bikes , you just have two points to get right and not 4 . hahaha.Sorry for the book here.

 

[Tripper]

Post a picture... that would probably help!

BoB

 

[ssimpala]

I vote for coilovers! Did you "spread" the spring? I just went out an measured my Model A, which appears to have the same spring on it, and it is spread so that the spring is 46 inches wide from eye to eye....make sense? Without a spring spreader it's kind of hard to do but needs doing. Hope this helps, Bill.

 

[blacksheep]

I vote for coilovers! Did you "spread" the spring? I just went out an measured my Model A, which appears to have the same spring on it, and it is spread so that the spring is 46 inches wide from eye to eye....make sense? Without a spring spreader it's kind of hard to do but needs doing. Hope this helps, Bill.

Yes, I have 46.5" and had to spread the spring to get the bolts in. I did find the problem last night. Once I adjusted my radius rods everything leveled out. But, I have another problem now. It seems that my rear end is about 1/4" off center. My thinking is that maybe I don't have the exact spacing on my spring perches on the axle. I measured this mornoing and found one spring perch 1/4" diffeerent than the other. I'm still thinking of going to coil overs. Reason for this would be that it would give me more room between the frame to mount my fuel tank and have some storage room there.

 

[ssimpala]

Yeah, I'm doing coilovers for that same reason.

 

[blacksheep]

Well, all is well now on the build. I figured out that my spring perch on the passengers side was off by a 1/2" . Cut it ,welded it back and secured the spring ,and all is well.

 

[sgtpontiac]

Sometimes all it takes.....

Well, all is well now on the build. I figured out that my spring perch on the passengers side was off by a 1/2" . Cut it ,welded it back and secured the spring ,and all is well.

is to step away from the thing for a while, go back and there you go.... Bob's your uncle!!!![cl

 

[chuckles]

Glad to see you're back on it.


Get some pics up. I'm still wantin to see it w/ the bed on..