Re: [Amc-list] Re; A front suspension idea!

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

There was someone years back who offered to build clutch rods for me. He said he worked in the industry and if I made up models or cad drawings he could bend them up and form the ends etc; That's probably been a good 7 years or so ago and I don't have any means of figuring out who he was. Strut rods would be essentialy the same, just larger and threaded. If we could get that guy or his equal it would be very easy to spec out a strut rod. Your talking an identical match to the original except the threaded end not beign tapered and perhaps leaving it an inch or so longer to allow one to dial in more positive caster.
  A more industrious fix would be a bracket for a heim joint on the control arm, box the arm to stop flex, then the threaded rod at the rear to allow a new style rubber trut bushing to keep harshness down.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> -- Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I honestly do not see a big need for this either.... Most likely the cars 
> that need something
> > done are the early cars that no longer have the correct strut bushings
> > available. Something that is not addresed by this thread
> 
> Yeah, a year or two ao I was chattin off-line with a lister (now off-list I 
> believe) (can't recall his name... brain fade... it will occur to me) about 
> producin such a thing.
> 
> It's realyl simple -- a modern-style strut rod that fits 63-64 
> classic/ambo. It's easy; threads for 6" or so on straight wire rod instead 
> of that odd forged/swaged thing. What makes 63-64 different from 65-up is 
> the angle at the lower arm end. That's all!
> 
> The problem is that even there, there's probably a market for 100 units 
> total.
> 
> I asked the list more than once 'what are people doing for replacement 
> strut bushings on 63, 64 classic/ambos' and got zero answers, which I assum 
> emeans people aren't driving those, or are driving on bad suspensions!
> 
> Frank welded the threaded portion of a new part onto the other end of an 
> old part; but most people are not pro welders! The fab the real part from 
> stock would be simple; length of wire rod; heat/bend the end, drill two 
> holes (a trivial jig would help); run a die down the other end. Done!
> 
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