2007 Crown Vic IFS /1953 GMC swap

[JMT]

I need help! Novice truck restorer has heard that this is an affordable way to upgrade front suspension. Has anyone done this? Just need step by step/pics. Flying blind. Obvious width difference but thought could change offset of rims on front and be successful. No plans to lower truck so hope fenders are not an issue.

[OrrieG]

I do not remember anyone on this site doing the crown vic setup but do remember looking at a Ford F1 conversion that used it. to busy to try and find it, google should find it or it might have been on the HAMB board. If I remember it is a bolt on deal that on the f1 just required some small shims on the side of the frame. I think the f1 frames have parallel rails where the AD's taper so you would probably need wedge shaped shims.

[BlueJeep]

It's a great swap for larger trucks, but it is probably too wide for AD trucks unless you make it sit really high.

Here's one that was done really well:


And another, but both of these trucks are a LOT wider than an AD:


I did see one in a TF truck, and it did look terrible (because it was so wide).

[mr48chev]

As Blue Jeep said it tends to work on the bigger wider trucks and ones with wide apart frame rails like the Fords and Binders have. You don't use the whole frame as there is none you use the front crossmember and suspension and rear suspension. Look at the above photos that Blue Jeep posted carefully and you will see that even on the really wide trucks wheel choices are really limited to what amount to front wheel drive offsets.

This is a long thread on Ford trucks . com that was started by Carcrafter22 who stuck one under his 66 F100 and put a 4BT diesel in it. http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/71...o-67-f100.html Read through it and read it close and you will see that while it works for WIDE trucks it won't work for our trucks.

The front crossmember is also aluminum meaning that 99.9% of the people who build trucks can't modify it properly to fit other vehicles.