Steering tire clearance?
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Steering tire clearance?
Hey fellas just wondering if I dropped the front axle on my 64 f100 by three inches if I am going to have issues making turns and driving it daily? It has 15 inch rims.
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I talked to a guy at a car show a few weeks ago who had a 64 f100 style side with 3" drop axle and lowered springs on his (about a 5" total drop). He said his handled well. He had Nostalgia Sid's drop the axle and got the 2" tie rod drops with it. He was using the stock 15" rims, too. Looked nice. BTW, he wasn't showing his truck, he was selling t shirts at the show. The truck was his daily driver.
I checked mine about the scrub line clearance on the axle with the 15" rims. You have about 2" of clearance beneath a stock axle and the bottom of your rims, so if both front tires were to blowout, a 3" drop axle would act like a plow into the pavement. 16" or 17" rims would solve that problem.
decisions... decisions...
I checked mine about the scrub line clearance on the axle with the 15" rims. You have about 2" of clearance beneath a stock axle and the bottom of your rims, so if both front tires were to blowout, a 3" drop axle would act like a plow into the pavement. 16" or 17" rims would solve that problem.
decisions... decisions...
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Thank you for the info imspry1964, I have not started the teardown yet still deciding what I want to do, the truck is all stock with minimal body work PO attempted some body work, no rust thru anywhere, but the paint job is coming of when I touch the truck, don't know how far I want to go yet, I'm thinking of hot ridding it but keeping everything period correct. Decisions yeah they are plenty.
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