Old School Hot Rod Truck (1964)

[Arekusu]

Since I changed my plan under recommendation of a lot of people who have done this high power motor thing before... my trailing arm connection piece from Poterbuilt needed to be remade for a 9".. problem is they never made one for the Fab style of housing. I understood that and Fab work takes measurements (I had none). I got the new bar for the 9" but it was a bit wider left and right than predicted. Soo my buddy who is holding this thing for me in his garage on jack stands has been getting antsy since he pretty much lost his garage. My buddy Keith.. he's good shi*, he's country and an Engineer.. so the ingenuity is crazy. lol He came up with an idea to make the porterbuilt connection piece fit (as it was off a few inches due to the different style housing). We used a tree as a mandrel, and used his truck winch to bend the bar after it was bolted to chains. We tried getting an exhaust shop to put a bend in it but no one wanted to play. So we did this. I held the bar in place while he pulled the slack out of the cable and chain, then stepped back while the winch did some work. We ended up with a bar that is just about perfect and now my buddy gets his garage back as he can roll the truck in and out of it now.

One crappy part in switching late to the Fab 9 housing .. with the back brace.. my notches now aren't wide enough.. well hopefully the suspension will still get enough travel when I launch it.

Alex