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Old 12-12-2008, 10:59 AM   #1
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How low can you go with solid 57 axle?

I was wondering if anyone has gotten a lot of drop out of a solid front axle?
How did you go about it? Is it possible to get an axle with a lower drop than stock and if so,from who?
I know that it is possible to get a solid axles for old hot rods in just about any drop height that you want.
I want something uncluttered,simple and light,so I want to stay away from a modern a-arm set up. Thanks-Keith
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Old 12-12-2008, 12:15 PM   #2
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Re: How low can you go with solid 57 axle?

You can flip the axle (placing it on top of the springs) and you can get up to 3-inch dropped axles. Dropped axles can be flipped as well. You can also get dropped springs.

In other words you can get pretty low with a solid axle and parallel leaf springs. I can't point you at any suppliers because after researching this 7 or 8 years ago I decided to go with Fatman's MII instead.
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Old 12-12-2008, 12:49 PM   #3
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Re: How low can you go with solid 57 axle?

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How did you go about it? Is it possible to get an axle with a lower drop than stock and if so,from who?
http://www.roadsters.com/axles/

or there's someone on the HAMB I think who does it also.
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Old 12-14-2008, 03:37 PM   #4
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Re: How low can you go with solid 57 axle?

www.classicperform.com
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Old 12-17-2008, 05:03 PM   #5
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Re: How low can you go with solid 57 axle?

Ebay user named stay-tooned he has 3" and 4" dropped original axles. www.droppedaxles.com You can view my thread and see the axle there. Hope this helped

with a 4" drop you get serious. If you have a blowout your scraping axle. I got the 3" drop axle and removed a couple leaf springs.
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