Thread: About to (maybe) buy my first hotrod. Please school me on 1931 Ford Coupes

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after enlarging the pics i can tell you it has one of the worst front ends ever put out. look closely for fatigue cracks around the aframes and the strut rod bracket . i have replaced many over the years because of cracking. welding 1/2 steel to an old frame is not a good idea. hundreds failed.

Originally Posted by shine

after enlarging the pics i can tell you it has one of the worst front ends ever put out. look closely for fatigue cracks around the aframes and the strut rod bracket . i have replaced many over the years because of cracking. welding 1/2 steel to an old frame is not a good idea. hundreds failed.

I hear ya shine, I guess that's why Pat Ganahl said what he did about seeing hundreds of broken ones every year. A lot of guys think they can design and follow through on a rod build, but very few of them have the engineering background or even simple backwoods smarts to carry it through to successful completion. As Brent Vandervort said, the MII is a very sturdy design and if these builders would simply emulate what the factory produced, they'd be fine. Hell, even the Pinto design would work well if it were installed in a lightweight rod as it was engineered at the factory. It's when these ham-fisted idiots begin to re-engineer the system that the whole mess goes to hell in a handbasket.

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