What I'm thinking of doing is cutting out the frame ,then welding some square tubing with one side cut out, to the frame then boxing the whole works in,making it thicker and wider

 

One thing to remember is that Aerostar balljoints are not that strong. I broke one crossing an intersection at 15 mph in my old Aero at 60K miles. That was with the stock 3.0. With a 429, that's gobs of extra weight on the front end.

 

But how many pot holes and railway crossings did u cross at high speed prior to the intersection? Just bustin ***** thanks for your input

 

Ok just in case you're wondering I measured the new suspension from the grease nipple to the opposite spring plate center pin on the rear axle before I did any cutting just to make sure I had everything lined up where it needed to be measured both sides corner to corner and they came out the same, Then I scribed a line on bothy sides of the clip and made 2 reference marks on each side so it will go back in the correct spot after I take it in and out probably a couple dozen more times


After I weld in these tubes I will box around them to make it a clean install

 

 

Ok let me know what you think of my progress so far and how do you like the way I have done this install

 

Great job 429, Ive never done a front suspension swap before, but looks like you figured it out.

I see you had to put those plates on top of the frame to get the width right. Looks like a decent setup and should be plenty strong enough.

Keep up the great work, looks like youve got all the hard stuff figuredout now.

Japedo

 

I removed the ruber bump stop to see how low it will go

 

 

 

It's done, not sure if I'm gonna use springs or air bagger

 

 

 

check out the 48 to 60 forum there are a lot of guys there that did
that swap & they ssay it is one of the easiest swaps to do.a lot of good info there