"Mindbender" '68 Phase III story

[JoeG]

I had the same problem with the first ladder bars that were first installed on my car,they were welded to the axle,--snapped the ears connected to the axle--they came out with bolt over ladder bars later, but it was decided to go with ET bars with steel bushings---

[JoeG]

Here's a photo of the early NMW bars used--

[MosportGreen66]

How wide is an L-60 tire ?

[JoeG]

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How wide is an L-60 tire ?

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[427TJ]

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How wide is an L-60 tire ?

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I made a typo---the photo caption says L70x15 not 60. On that 8-inch rim the tread looks about 8 inches across. Now that's a big'ol tall 70 if you ask me!

[Pantera]

Those Look they are for a Chevelle and chevelles have contol arms that will keep the housing from rotating around the pinion gear and causing a wreck. Usually you will loose the driveshaft rear ujoint up against the bottom of the car. But on the Chev II's they had nothing that went over the rear axle where it fit on the spring and the dam things were killers. when the wield would break and it did when you put enought torke to it, then the entire rearend had nothing but the driveshaft holding it under the car. If you were going fast enought it would cause a hell of a wreck.

I bet it cost GM a bunch of money back then. They had the same set up out for 3 to 4 years until the horsepower of the 327 HI Per motors suddenly started to twist the entire housing out of the cars. simple solution was to just replace the bolts with a U bolt and problem solved.

I would bet someone here has the service order or what ever they called it.


Pantera