Front Suspension is done! Lifting with Wagon Springs & Ball Joint Spacers. Aces High Gasser Ep. 7
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In this episode we refurbish the front suspension, and use the old Wagon Spring and Ball Joint Spacer trick to lift the front ride height using the factory upper and lower control arms! I also unbox and mount my brand new Rocket Fuel front wheels! Be sure to like and subscribe if you dig these videos!
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Thanks for sharing ...I'm gonna do the same thing on my 55 gasser...I agree gassers aren't all strait axle
Like the low budget build . I have a speedway axle after buying steering box steering joints I am at about $ 1,800 and it will never drive as good as a stock front end. Your build is fine.
Sharp rod ! I agree its all about having fun and running your car . Not spending as much as you can on it . NO need in spending when you don't really need to . Im sure the guys in the 60s didn't . Keep the updates coming
You are completely correct. I had a 55 2dr sedan gasser with wagon frt springs and ball joint extensions. This was in the 70's.
Really like the control arms.... Keep it up
You are correct, not all gassers back in the day had strait axles.
But it was done for weight savings in the frame and suspension to be competitive.
Good luck with your project it's been entertaining watching.
Run it the way you want it!! I love it looks sick.!!
Great job looks killer.......not all gassers had a straight axle !
Thank you!
Beautiful job...I think that the design with the holes and the look from the spacers it's really just as cool as a straight axle, plus it will handle good to.
Love what your doing. Build it the way you want to and what your budget will handle. Thats how it was done back in the '60's. Cant wait to see it's progress
Back in late 60's we used hi- rise spindles to raised front end.
Does Anyone make dropped spindles? In the San Francisco area there was a guy by the name of Al in Brisbane, south of the.city who made spindles to raise the front end 6". People generally don't want to do it, but to my knowledge none of his failed. Some guys would flip the spring perches in the rear end to get High all the way around. I was at car show a couple of years ago and there was a guy who still had them on after 40 years.
Love the look. Can't wait to see it finished
Really like your frugal approach to this build.
Nothing better than a street sign paint bench! Looking awesome!
Really cool. I’m watching from Australia and I’m loving it. Awesome build.
I sure hope ball joint spacers are better than they used to be. They would break and you would have to drive home in reverse unless you could get it towed.
Car looks Killer, love it great job, My friends and I say chop it up, there is one in a Museum
TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!! IT CAME OUT GREAT!!!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!
Good job, like you said that's how people did it back in the day. I built a 69 AMC rambler straight axle 454 TH400 ford 9" and used the front end out of a 89 Cherokee with the stock disk brakes and power steering so you can drive it and enjoy it without the death wobble and bad brakes on a lot of other cars I've seen converted to straight axles. Super cheap all stock parts so if it breaks on the road you can fix it and drive home, and it tracks straight as an arrow
I don't have a straight axle on my 57 but I have custom spindles. I was racing at the tri5 with the gassers.
I love it..A Totally Awesome Build
Dig what your doing, keep up the awesome work!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome info. For more upward travel when racing. Completely remove bump stop brackets at the rivets. Drill a new upper shock hole outward as shocks rub inside springs
Love the front suspension being how they actually used to do it I have a 50 chevy that was a race car in the late 60s and early 70s and it has the stock front suspension.
Seen a bunch of Photos of gassers without Straight front axles and I look just as good
That front end came out killer, love the gold and holes
Thank you! I think it's unique at the very least haha. I'm happy with it
Just stumbled across your channel. Great stuff!! Lookin forward to checking out your other vids 👌🏻
Man I needed to find this video, Iam not doing a Tri-5 car but this still helps with my impala.
Great job! Im in the process of building my 55 gasser love the channel keep it up.
Great video.
Putting a straight axle in my '88 S10, going for the gasser look and feel.
I should add I had 2 55's with straight axles and a Anglia gasser with a straight axle.
Looking good!! You are 100% correct about it NOT needing a straight axle to be "gasser". There were actually far more cars back in the day running in the Gas Classes with A arm suspensions than straight axles. That is a FACT. The axle cars that ran in A and B gas in particular got most of the press, but for every axle car there were 20 A-arm cars running in C/G, D/G and so on, and not even all the top A/G and B/G were axle cars.
Right you are.
Nice to see someone build a gasser and put a proper sized front tires on it. They ran like 28in diameter tires in the late 60s. Nowadays everyone runs like a 25inch diameter and that's way too small and goofy as hell looking. Keep up the good work. I'm building a Pro stock barracuda. Love the late 60s to late 70s street machines amd gassers
Your car looks KILLER, thanks for all the tips on what you used to get it to sit like that. Cool idea on using the 58 springs with a 348 and the ball joint spacers to.. Thanks, can't wait to see it with the glass front end on. Nothing wrong with low budget my man, build it the way you want to...
Outstanding love it that's the look
👍 from Argentina.
Thanks for the support!
Nice!👍
Another great video 👍👍
The gold and black reminds me of mike finnegans Blashemi
Sweet nice gasser project. I’m working on a 62 c10 step side. Wish I could make it a true gasser but can’t because I’m using an 8.1 496 and a 4L80E. It be a nice street rod though. But I’m still keeping the old school look.
Lots of gassers used your build style on their front ends, in fact most gassers didn't run straight axles, mainly the top competitors did, but it wasn't the norm. At least not in California. And in the '60's and up to the late eighties we attended and completed at most of our states drag strips.
Cool, do the best you can!
i doing exactly what u just did on ur front end looked up the spring u used rock auto has moog springs the part number u gave and another that says hd are u satified with the ride im looking for lift but not looking for a hard ass ride thanks love the video
I dig it. Cool stance
Looks sick man good work
The very first gassers were independent, then the I beam truck axles were incorporated at some point by someone. Nobody seems to know exactly who started it but people have their assumptions. Each story cancels someone else out. Nonetheless gassers were being built and raced almost a decade before popularity. At first they were subtlety lifted in front, As time went on they got more lifted and wild with wheelbase mods. That’s it in a nutshell. I’m building a early early gasser with a 57 Chevy truck axle and have done far too much research into pre 56-7 gasser ( not the car years) builds it’s actually really hard to find information on. Those guys who built and raced gasser class pre 57 aren’t online posting information let alone on RUclips. Good luck with your build man!!
My 66 Fastback was a "Mini Gasser" way back in the way back . Ball joint spacers from JC WHitney I think..... HAd the look and it ran strong.. Funny how Im thinking about putting it back now....LOL
Nice build got me thinking about gassing my 67 c20
Cool Vid 4Sure
Keep your current front suspension, leave the straight axles for the "street freak" junk. Your car stands out with the stock type setup.
Nice to meet you guys in Denton.....
Looks good 👍
Love this build. Where can I see it at finished ?? And how tall are those front tires ?
Can you answer are you able to install side motor mount conversion with motor in car? Thanks
It looks good but what does it have to do with butter
We do what we can with what we got. Mostly low budget..
Depending on what happens over the weekend, I might be bringing a 63 GMC home myself. 401 V-6. Any parts out there ?? Looking good, great info video.👍👍
Nice job on the job there , but daaammmnnnn that's a lot of hub cabs.
the moog 658a is the wagon spring they have another that says heavy duty, what i would like to know if the 658a lift the car enough thanks
Did you get that roll bar from Big Daddy Dale? Looks familiar and I was gong to make one like that.I went with the extended spindles. Check out my ride height. Stock springs but thinking of going with the 58 wagon ones now. I have a 56 chevy 1/2 ton front axle but....
Nice I have a 55 hardtop iam making a gasser out of it
hi bob from pa where did you get the ball joint spacers please get back to me
How did you get the coil springs in? I bought the same springs and having a tough time getting them compressed
Love the gold paint . It looks like the old gold anodized stuff . I see its Rustoleum but what is the color called ?
Need to do ball joint spacers on mine and would like to have your roll bar too.cool looking 57 so far.
Search andys bel air to see my 56
We haven't seen the 57 Gasser where is it what are you doing with it get it finished let's see it at the drag strip
It's coming back soon! We've just been busy and doing other small projects since the virus has had this year messed up, but I hope to have it back in the middle of the shop in a couple weeks to get some progress made! I'm ready to have it at the track for sure!
What ball joint spacer kit did you use?? I’ve been looking to do my 55 without doing a solid front. Gasser inspired also
I like what you are doing.Im not in to straight axles.I know iim in heresy lol.
Did you get that roll bar from the boys at Skull Garage?
Lookin good man, how fast are you trying to run ?
I love the low budget way of racing. Check out SNDR Southeast Nostalgia Drag Racing. We run gassers without the straight axle rule.
What ratios in that diff next you your a arms?? Got a 58 axle in my 33 Plymouth gasser. Need a set of 4.10/4.11s. Got a 3.55 at moment and it just dont pull hard enough
Sick of straight axles, like you said not all gassers had them.
Hey dude! Is the suspension topped out? Does it still have suspension travel?
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1:03 cant afford a straight axle? A used Ford or chevy axle would be less expensive than what you did
it aint a gasser without a straight axle period all that money you spent on rattle cans you could have picked up a old axle thats the way there built when nobody heard of speedway a true gasser will allways look down you !!!!!!!!!!
That's total bullshit.
you painted your control arms gold you should paint your wheels purple then drop a little ac""?>d then sit in the car a pretend your driving a real gasser:::::: whats your t shirts say /? when i grow up ill be a gasser//??? lol