Why is the mustang ii front end so popular
Mustang II Front End Suspension Install
we got the rear end in the four bar from
Ridetech great stuff looks good
got all the welding finished we're
excited about how that's working now
we've gone to the front I went ahead and
put the boxing plates in so that we're
prepared to put this front end in we're
going to use a fat man crossmember and
ride check upper and lower control arms
now Roddy Mason has come down from ride
tech to give us a hand so we're looking
forward to his help first thing we have
to do well what we've already done is
we've marked the center line based on
the axle and then mark our center lines
there mark our center line and our
crossmember and then get that tacked up
into place
Rodney did the calculations what we're
looking for is somewhere is around a two
degree rake right now we're at a 1.8
degrees
break which is dang near perfect which
means we don't have to put any shims in
between the crossmember and the frame
we'll be able to just tack this bad boy
right in place we've got our center line
mark good we I've marked this one here
halfway in between the two months that's
going to move our control on back by by
3/8 to M and what this does is go it
adds cash during the front-end more
caster you got the better they drive
we're going off the axle centerline that
we got mark and we're going to line that
up the senator will set it side to side
tacker in place this is Batman's co /
setup you can use it with a co / or a
shockwave which that's what we're using
this must be 38 and 1/2 Center to Center
kept crossmember welded in terror attack
did we not haven't done any final
welding yet next thing we're going to do
we're going to put the control on a
factory Mustang - this would be open and
the control arm actually goes in the
crossmember and then there's a strut rod
that comes off of it a lot of guys in
the industry they get rid of strut rod
go to one piece on we're going to do
that though we got to widen it out right
X kit comes with this spacer to fill the
gap here you know if you were doing a
factory crossmember of the sheet metal
one you would drill the hole out on each
side and run the tube all the way
through and well being
Batman's cross members already got a
solid spacer in so what we'll do on it
this is four inches wide we got seven
three-quarter we'll cut three and
three-quarter off here and weld on the
backside of this crossmember and then
yes it
now final assembly will put anti-seize
on that bolt so we can get it out
the lower control arms at right height
will be for all intents and purposes
parallel to the ground that's going to
give us a proper geometry how the card
is going to sit just right one of the
things you might note is that the shock
wave is in upside down shock wave
doesn't know it the reason we do that is
particularly on the top here it gives us
the clearance that's necessary and it
can run upside-down all day long and it
don't care it looks good I mean we've
got flexure shock waves in the front and
in the back got these awesome right tech
upper and lower control arms hit wedding
but three hours to get this whole thing
in that was that's pretty cool I can
hardly wait to get the front wheels on
and see how this thing is going to sit I
betcha it's going to be sweet
