Converting 47 Coupe to tube shocks
I am converting my 47 Ford Super Deluxe Sedan Coupe from lever to tube shocks. In the front end the upper mount apparently can use either the same frame holes that the old lever shocks used for mounting or two vertically aligned frame holes located maybe 6" further back. The mounts for these two locations are configured differently. The lower mount can either go in the perch bolt hole where the lever shock had connected or in a hole in the axle up near the kingpin boss if you have the later 48 axle that has the bolt hole already there.
Luckily my 47 Coupe has the 48 front axle so I can use that pre-existing hole for the lower shock mount. Aligning the shock between the upper and lower mounts is where the problem is in my project. Here are a few photos of the alternative mounting brackets.
Has anybody been through this conversion, and how did you do it?
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