Thread: axle mounting

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I need some help locating a supplie for axle and shock mounting kits.for example........I'm building a 1948 chevy and I want to keep the original 1&3/4 inch springs and put a nova rear under it.Butch's rod shop had all this stuff but have gone out of business.....Any info would be greatly appreciated...

Well, if you are using the original parellel rear springs, mostly what you need are the spring perches to weld to the new axle and some shock mounting brackets to weld on there too.

I looked at Speedway, and they carry the formed perches for the axle, and also have some 3 hole shock brackets for the housing, too.

But it sounds to me like, if you were looking at a Butches kit, there must be more to it than just these few parts?

I might be missing something, but with parellel springs you won't need panhard bars, or any of that, so most of your stock shackle stuff, etc, should work, and it would be a simple matter to fab up the rest.

i put a nova rear end on leafs on my bucket. i used the lower bottm brackets form the nova rearend an i went to a local trailer shop and got u bolts and also weld on spring perches from them that fit the rearend dia . i mounted everything loose on the springs and lined everthing up so it was straight and got the pinon angle right and then tack welded it all and took it apart and welded it up. i mounted the shocks inside the frame and flipped the lower mounts backwards for more tire clearance. it worked really good. the toughest parts was grinding the ugly original nova spring mounts off the rearend.