| bwhitworth | -- 03-25-2017 @ 7:01 AM |
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Who sells a kit for installing modern tubular shocks and brackets to mount them on a 40 Ford front and rear?
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| Stroker | -- 03-25-2017 @ 8:30 AM |
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Chassis Engineering: http://www.chassisengineeringinc.com/ shows Part Number AR2037 front tube shock kit for 37-40's. and AR2038A. rear kit for 35-40. Guess my question in the "interest of originality" would be WHY? This message was edited by Stroker on 3-25-17 @ 8:31 AM
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| supereal | -- 03-27-2017 @ 1:49 PM |
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Dan: I put tube shocks on my cars to make them safer. The lever shocks, if they worked at all. were insufficient. After a road dip nearly put me in the ditch, they had to go! Chassis Engineering used to be my neighbor. They would walk over to see what I was using under my '47. Good guys making quality parts.
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| Stroker | -- 03-27-2017 @ 3:07 PM |
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I have BIG 50/50 shocks made for a 50's Cadillac Ambulance on the back of my 38, as the splayed mounting "angle" helps stabilize that old "slab-sided" station wagon in a cross-wind. I have a set of "correct" professionally re-built Houdaille's for the back if I ever want to make it "correct" however. I also have NOS Houdaille's that I found at a small town Central California Ford dealership in the 60's on the front. VERY Hard (impossible) to find "anything" truly "NOS" today. I agree that a good heavy-duty "modern" tube shock is quite "sufficient" and a whole lot cheaper and simpler to replace. Houdaille's are GREAT shocks IF they are properly adjusted and are in good condition. That's a "challenge" today however given that rebuild-able "cores" are rare,and there are SO MANY different part numbers specific to year and model. Super, my only "issue" with bwhitworth was that his 40 won't be "correct" with tubes. You and I are "in-step" on the issue of making the car drive well. BUT, given that I've been "correcting" some other stuff like putting a "correct" 38 "staggered port" fuel pump, Chandler Groves "unmarked" carb, aluminum intake etc. I suspect I'll install the rebuilt Houdallie's AND, given that I'm almost eighty, this car isn't likely to be going on any "high-speed" road runs, and neither should your lovely convertible. This message was edited by Stroker on 3-27-17 @ 3:48 PM
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