I saw in front suspension part 1 reference to a drop axle and bump steer problems. I have a 51 F-1 and I want to get it lower. I installed reverse eye mono springs in the front and standard eye mono springs in the rear. However the rear is lower then the front. Therefore I was thinking of installing a drop axle as well. Does anyone out there have this combo and if so am I going down a bad path. I would prefer the drop axle because I can install that in my own shop. With a IFS it gets much more expensive and difficult which I can not preform in my shop. Any advice will be appreciated.

 

Hi, I just installed a 3" drop axle from cpp.com . I also pulled a couple of leafs out the front leafs to get a little more drop and ended up with 5 1/2" drop. I wanted more because I dropped the rear 8" by swapping the springs from over the axle to under the axle. The only thing I have to do is get some drop tie rod ends to compensate, the tie rod now hits the front springs. CCP suggested that I use a solid tie rod bar also. Good luck.

 

I to installed 3 inch drop axle on my 52, springs are stock. have the tierod drops also. still running flathead, tie rod is about 1.5 inch from oil pan.had to heat and bend steering arm to fix bump steer.