Thread: Removing my hair pins - need guidance please

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I asked two pretty hotrod savvy people and got two completely different answers, so now I am confused and thought I'd better run it by you guys. Please only answer this if you have a 1932 with hairpins and have removed and reinstalled your hairpins. THanks:

I will be sending my hairpins to get rechromed. No longer shall my hairpins be red. Currently the hairpins are bolted to a small braket welded to the bottom of the frame on one end and to my batwings on the other two ends. In short, 3 large bolts hold everything together. I am posting photos at the end of this post to help you figure things out.

Can you walk me through the procedure of removing them and then reinstalling them.

1- will I need to jack up the car or not necessary?

2- will I need to worry about holding everything in place while hairpins are removed and sent out to rechromed or will the front leaf spring keep everything steady until my hairpins return. NEEDLESS TO SAY I WOULD NOT BE MOVING THE CAR OR DRIVING IT WHILE HAIRPINS ARE OFF>

3- how would you guys go about measuring the threads so to put everything back EXACTELY the same way it was.

I was given different and sometimes contradictory answers to above questions, so I hope you guys can clarify things for me. This is my next move, along with bias plys tires.

Thanks a zillion,

Hiboy Girl

I will post a photo of the batwing area today. Here is the photo of the other end of the hairpin set-up.