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Episode 117 Make your 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 Ford Galaxie handle better. Today, we will be dealing with making a street Galaxie handle using parts that are available now. I will be concentrating on the 1960 to 64 Galaxies as they are the ones in most need of help. Let hit the biggest problems first Front suspension: 1963 and 1964 The offset bolt. Honestly the one thing that will make a 1963-64 Galaxie handle better is to lose that offset bolt. The offset bolt induces: • Darting under hard braking or uneven pavement (bump steer) • wandering at higher speeds • Pucker when the owner has either There are two ways to cure this: http://bornagainclassics.com/products... • One is the same mod used on Police and Taxi applications back in the day. The mod got rid of the offset arm and replaced it with an offset bushing removing the funky feeling Born Again Classics can modify your originals or you can buy a set from them. https://budsclassiccars.com/ • Use Bud’s Classic Car tie rod stabilizer bar (if the front end is fresh). Either of these will make the issues go away. Suspension deflections Urethane up front? No. • No one makes a urethane kit for the 1960-64 Galxies. • Urethane in those areas gets squeaky. Stock • The only way to make the deflection on the bushings better is to locate a ‘60-61 set of A-Arms and trade them out for the stock arms. The early arms have smaller bushings and therefore less deflection. Tubular This is one place I consider tubular a-arms. Places like Fatman Fabricators offer a kit to enhance the caster and camber settings that were not present in the original parts. Because power steering was not as big a thing in the early ‘60s Ford usually put larger steering wheels and zero caster in the cars—and not much prevision for adding caster. https://www.fatmanfab.com/ Sway Bars Simple and sweet run a 1 inch front and a 7/8 rear with urethane bushings. The only place that carries the rear bar is Quickor. http://quickorgarage.com/ Shocks I recommend using a non gas shock, though I am pretty excited about the Ride Tech HQ series fully adjustable shocks; we are looking at adding these to our ‘63 as a test. https://www.qa1.net/ https://www.ridetech.com/ Front HQ Series Shock – T-bar to Stud – 5.25″ Stroke: 22159846 Air ride could make for an interesting ride when combined with the Fatman Fab arms. I would go with Ride Tech for this They offer an air ride with a cool four link rear for the 1960-64 Galaxie. Suspension deflections • The only way to make the deflection on the bushings better is to locate a ‘60-61 set of A-Arms and trade them out for the stock arms. The early arms have smaller bushings and therefore less deflection. Lowering • Out back do it right, get a set of leaf springs done to drop the rear axle. Lowering blocks will do the same job but will induce wheel hop. You want the axle as close to the centerline of the spring as possible. • Drop spindle for the front or new lowering springs, just remember that your shock may be effected by a dramatic drop and have to be shorter. Fatman offers the spindles and that opens you up to bigger Wilwood brakes. Brakes • Many aftermarket kits are available we’ll be using one from Auto Krafters. • You can also use '72- Torino/LTD II/'77-up Thunderbird/Cougar. These spindles can have camber issues. BUT! You can, when using the ‘72 Thunderbird 11.72 inch rotor combined with the right spindle Galaxie 500 Manual Disc Brake Kit 1959-69 : DB1513M https://www.autokrafters.com/p-12054-... Chassis You have the option of complete chassis. But like dead sticking an air plane that the gear won’t come down...this is going to hurt. Frame swaps Can you frame swap the later frames with the 1960-63 Galaxie. No. At least not without a lot of trouble, a gas axe and copious amounts of cash. The early frame and the 1965 and later frames have zero in common outside of name and make.