O.T. Biggest Pet Peeve In pre 1953...

[19Fordy]

Torque tube rear ends.
They may look cool and are traditional but they are just a pain in the neck to work on. An open drive shaft would have been one of Henry's better ideas.

[scooder]

Originally Posted by 19Fordy

Torque tube rear ends.
They may look cool and are traditional but they are just a pain in the neck to work on. An open drive shaft would have been one of Henry's better ideas.

Really? The closed drive line does more than one job, for an open one to work aswell as a closed, you need to add a bunch of parts. Closed is simple, well designed and the torque tube being multi functional. Easy to work on and set up compared to Dana or 9" type rear ends. And the pinion hight being half way up sucks up much less horse power that the low pinion open types.
Just wish they had pull out shafts and safety hubs (like later stuff)
One of my gripes is late rear end where an early Ford one is ment to be. Obviously my opinion,
Martin.

[robert dick]

Any thing BILLET

[skidmarks]

Originally Posted by scooder

Really? The closed drive line does more than one job, for an open one to work aswell as a closed, you need to add a bunch of parts. Closed is simple, well designed and the torque tube being multi functional. Easy to work on and set up compared to Dana or 9" type rear ends. And the pinion hight being half way up sucks up much less horse power that the low pinion open types.
Just wish they had pull out shafts and safety hubs (like later stuff)
One of my gripes is late rear end where an early Ford one is ment to be. Obviously my opinion,
Martin.

Its not hard to ad pull out axles to a banjo rear and you can get the parts to do it out of a early F1 or a merc.......

[scooder]

Originally Posted by skidmarks

Its not hard to ad pull out axles to a banjo rear and you can get the parts to do it out of a early F1 or a merc.......

I'm fully aware of that conversion, I've done it using a Dana 44 Merc axle as a doner axle, no aftermarket parts. I got the info from an early 60's hot rod magazine article. Doing another one for my A V8 project.
Just wish they already came from Ford like it, that would save me haffing to do it.
Martin.