1934 Ford Roadster Pickup - Suspended With Function & Style

Consisting of an axle, axle plate, bearing, lock, and lock plate, Jeff hand-assembled the stub-axle assembly, prior to pressing it together in the hydraulic press. As shown, the process required 4 tons of pressure. He repeated the press process for the other stub-axle assembly.

Jeff installed the short stub-axle assembly within the driver side of the housing and the long stub-axle assembly in the passenger side.

After clocking the axle plates into their grooves, he hand-tightened and impact-wrench-tightened the bolts holding the axle plates.

Once Jeff put Loctite on the caliper-cradle bolt threads, he installed the caliper cradles.

Before installing the housing's air-breather valve, Jeff wrapped the fitting with Teflon tape.

With the polyurethane rear crossmember bushings (black donuts) and the breather valve installed, Jeff tightened the Allen fasteners, which hold the single E-brake bracket in place. Rest assured, Loctite went on the fasteners' threads prior to this step.

After ensuring the rotor's flange and axle flange were true within the caliper cradle, Jeff installed the four bolts through the axle-flange plate and applied anti-seize to the stainless steel bolt threads, which mate to the halfshafts via U-joints.

Before installing the control arms, Jeff installed the control-arm adjusters and dialed in 10/1000 of toe-out. He installed smaller-diameter mock-up bolts within the pivot tubes to attach the control arms. Upon final detail and assembly, chrome-plated Grade 8 bolts will be utilized.

Since there is little tolerance between the holes and the bolts that hold the outer hub uprights, Jeff greased the shafts of the bolts before using a rubber mallet for still extra persuasion.