Thread: Model A rear susp.

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Hi, Evidently the "SEARCH" feature is working now. I thought about some other things after the first response. After remembering a bit I think the '40 rear installations in Model A frames that I saw still had the spring over the axle with brackets welded on the axle housings of the "banjo" rear. I wanted to add (later) that maybe a flatter spring could be found AND that the eyes of the spring could be reversed and that should lower the spring and body by about 1". Thus if you keep the spring over the axle I don't see how you could lower the body any more than about 2". You did not say what you are trying to do, rod, resto-rod ? Long ago I put 17" wire wheels on the rear of a '31 Tudor and left the front wheels at the stock 19" to give a "sit down rake" but of course that is a simple adolescent trick and while I thought it looked cool, the appearance is entirely subjective. At present I am installing coil-over shocks at the rear corners of a Brookville A-frame with a built-in kickup but so far I do not know how firm that will be or which of the three holes I will use for the mount. In my older age I would now favor jacking up the rear a bit so it is purely subjective. Overall just try to take off the top two leaves of your rear spring (carefully) and then get the eyes of the bottom leaf reversed at a spring shop (heating, straightening and then reverse rolling), that should give you a lowering of about 1 1/2"; otherwise try a four-bar.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder