Thread: Will this raise it??

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Hi. Not been working on the car all winter. Just started up a little this Spring. Put the wheels and tires back on my 37 Ford tudor. I like the height. I have 195 65/R15" front, and 235 75/R15" rear. A problem I ran ito is that I put on 2" drop spindles, and cut a loop out of the coils on a Mustang II frontend. Now I have a problem with the grease fitting hitting the rim. I tried right angle grease fittings, and they don't help either. Would installing new coils raise the frontend enough to pull the wheels away from the lower A arms??

Wow! That's really low!! I don't think taller coils will change that relationship with the wheel - the A-arms operate in a parallelogram so those end points are pretty well fixed other than swinging in a bit of an arc with spring travel. An easy way to see is to put a floor jack under that center crossmember and raise it an inch or two to see what it does to your A-arm to wheel clearance. Be careful though, or you may pop the zirk off when you hit a bump and work the suspension. I have one fitting on my I-beam axle that I leave a plug in normally, and install a zirk only when I'm greasing things.

I pulled the grease fittings out. Where do I get caps for them?? I could just carry one in the glove box when I need it. I am also kid of afraid of the front crossmember being so low. I could change out the front tires with something a little higher??

I bought a blister pack of zirks at the auto box store and it had two each plugs, straight, 45 and 90 fittings. Your local parts house should have a little plug, unless they have to have a year and model application to look it up They're a common fitting. I think I would be concerned with that crossmember height, too. Mine hits a coke can right at that top shoulder where the straight side rolls over, almost twice your height, and I take speed bumps really easy, as well as curb dips off of the street. Taller tires will help, but you might also think about running 16's or 17's combined with the right tire to get the clearance you need. That would help your grease zirk problem, too. It's getting harder to find 15's all the time, but Coker loves us running them $$$$$

Well I jacked it up. While jacking it up a few inches. You can see that the arm swinging down, and the lower ball joint move away from the rim. I remember back when I bought 7/16" wheel spacers.. I also bought 1/4" wheel spacers. I could try them on and see if it pulls the rim away from the ball joint..

Ok. i know that I have to replace the front coils. Would anyone on here happen to have a 37 Ford Tudor that might know what the frontend weighs with a sbc, and a 350 turbo?? Thanks.. Al

I changed out the front tires. I put back on the 225's. Don't like the way it sits really, but some of it might be because they are ugly front tires.. Now the tires hit the fenders.. I have to crawl around under the front fenders to get them to fit right. I did want it to have a rake in the front, but I am not sure that I can.

How about getting a different back spacing on the wheels. Or like yousaid run a spacer

Why don't you just put stock ride ht spindles on it?

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Why don't you just put stock ride ht spindles on it?

X2 Jerry. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the dropped spindles. Why?

Let me look for a pic of just what it looked like with stock height and the 225's..

I think I found one. It sat way to high. I want it kind of down in the front.

You have got something more different than just stock/2 inch drop spindles

Went back--you also cut coils, and used 195 tires---just change the spindles, use the 195s and the cut coils---just the spindles will give you clearance on the grease fitting, and raise the cross member 2 inches

I have some pics of that as well. First one is with the 195's, then 195's with the drop spindles, then with the cut coils..