Thread: Need Help ID'ing This Frontend

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This frontend was given to me yesterday but I have no idea what it came out of. It has a 5x5 pattern and measures 50" center to center at kingpins.
I hoping to find year and vehicle type.

Thanks,
Larry

Maybe a Ford F100, (pre Twin i Beams) That's a lot of leaves in those springs, too many for a car?

Thanks Mike.

I have also been told possibly a old/early model chevy truck because of the shape of the steering arm.

Honestly I have no idea. Hoping someone on this site can help me ID it so I know what kind of steal wheels to look for.

Thanks again,
Larry

In the picture you can't tell if it's 5 or 6 lugs.. It is not 5.5 on 5 so it's not an F100.. kinda liiks like 4.5 on 5 and that would make it either an econoline or an A100 dodge

you might want to check this against an old F250 front end or possibly the F 500-600 series.
Just a thought.

Looks like 50 era chevy truck to me. Especially because of the drag link ends.

Yep, Chevy pickup, probably early 50's would be my guess.

Don

Its has a 5x5 pattern.

Someone else said it was a early 50's Chevy also.

Still in the process of taking it apart to clean it and hopefully I will come across some numbers or letters on it. If so I will post those.

It measures 50" center to center between the kingpins.

Any one know of a good way to free the shoe from the drums. Got one side broke lose but the other side wants to be a bear so I am soaking it in WD40 over night and hopefully will get it seperated tomorrow night.

Thanks for all the replies
Larry

This web site lists all the vehicles which have a 5x5 bolt pattern. http://www.roadkillcustoms.com/hot-r...&StudSpreadMM=

According to this, the most likely suspect would be a Chevy/GMC truck from the 60s or 70s.

take the nut off .then i cut the ancor pins off the back plate. use a shape chisel or grind the heads off and pull every thing off should come. as for the axle from the knuckles look like chevy ?

I think I found a site with the info I have been looking for. Check this out for future reference if anyone else runs into this problem with ID'ing an axle.

http://droppedaxles.com/

Thanks for all the replies and your help.
Larry

Chevy trucks went to independent front suspension in about '60. Also, they all had 6-lug patterns up through '70 or '71. Chevy passenger cars also had 6-lug pattern up through 1947 or '48. In '49 they went with independent front end... The back of the spindles look like Chevy and the tie rod ends look like the ones GM used back when... My guess is it's a late '30's - early '40's GM, but not Chevy. It could be Buick, Olds, or Pontiac as they all used the 5 on 5 pattern since the 1930's.

Went to the boneyard today and found a 50 model chevy 3/4 ton truck and to my surprise the frontend is the same down to the shackles. Everything measures the same. Heheheh, that old truck also still has the steering box and steering column in it. Could be the ticket I'm looking for.

To all who said six lugs for that time period, correct you are. My hub and drums have been changed to a later model.

Thanks for all your help on this.
Larry

It was a popular swap to put passenger car (5 lug) drums on the truck backing plates so you could use mag wheels and stuff like that. I think that is what you have there.

Don

I think you are right Don. Though the backing plates are somewhat rusted I think I can find another set with the shoe brakes,springs and all the inners and go from there. LOL...It helps to have a son-in-law working at one of the largest boneyards around here.
Thanks for your reply also.
Larry