|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
04-26-2024, 08:34 AM | #1 |
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 70
|
Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Hello Everyone
Long time I haven't posted I currently working on a 32 roadster project and I have a complete 39 axle for it. Could someone share the torque tube and axle lenght mesurements ? i guess the torque tube will be 43 cm shorter but not completely sure Thanks a lot |
04-26-2024, 08:51 AM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Jacksonville FL
Posts: 4,001
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Torque tube length is 73-3/4" (approx) measurement......4" longer than the 39 Ford. Axle length is the same as 39 Ford.
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
04-26-2024, 08:52 AM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern France
Posts: 5,326
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Peter,I don't know about the 39 torque tube length to shorten to fit in a 32 BUT If using a 33,34 rear you shorten the torque tube and driveshaft 8 9/16 inches.Not sure if this helps.
|
04-26-2024, 09:08 AM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Basking Ridge, NJ
Posts: 594
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Put "Drive shaft length" or "Torque tube length" in the search box, hit enter, read up
and you could narrow the result by putting 32 in the front of each search |
04-26-2024, 09:24 AM | #5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Jacksonville FL
Posts: 4,001
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Pete
IF memory serves me right, you should see the 4" added splice part to the torque tube somewhere just "AFT"??? of where the rear radius rods attach or right at that spot Last edited by rockfla; 04-26-2024 at 09:30 AM. |
04-26-2024, 04:54 PM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern California
Posts: 7,051
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
Charlie Stephens |
04-27-2024, 10:47 AM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 16,483
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
The early Mercury has a drive shaft that is integral to the pinion. It's all one piece which makes it difficult to modify. The ring and pinion can be replaced for the axle but a drive shaft will have to be fabricated.
|
04-27-2024, 10:56 AM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: sw minnesota
Posts: 4,596
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
You can not use the 32 stock length, as the later (35 & up) diffs are about 9/16 longer at the pinion snout because of the bigger pinion and bearings.
|
04-28-2024, 04:23 AM | #9 |
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 70
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Thank you all for your inputs
I will share photos of the progress asap For now I'm there, and only real hot rodders will understand and smell thoses pictures |
04-28-2024, 05:50 AM | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Solihull, England.
Posts: 8,775
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Pete. I shared the torque tube and driveshaft lengths I used in my 32 build in one of my videos.
Here's a link: https://youtu.be/-mOo2eZX_2U?list=PL...tv75lSAjWveT0o If you read the description I go through the lengths. Note: If I were doing it again I would make them both about 6mm shorter to give better clearance at the rear crossmember. Last edited by Mart; 04-28-2024 at 06:01 AM. |
04-28-2024, 06:27 AM | #11 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Wiscasset, Maine
Posts: 2,031
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
This is what I have in my '32
__________________
Archives of historical but relevant older articles: ------------- Hover mouse over the links below and click! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--------------- Rumble Seat's Notes Techno-Source for the 1932 thru 1953 Flathead Ford |
04-28-2024, 01:52 PM | #12 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 8,372
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Quote:
__________________
The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
|
04-28-2024, 10:56 PM | #13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern California
Posts: 7,051
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Remember you will need to rework the spring to get it to fit the '32 crossmember. Note curve of '32 spring shown in the photo.
Charlie Stephens Last edited by Charlie Stephens; 04-28-2024 at 11:02 PM. |
04-28-2024, 11:27 PM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 8,372
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
__________________
The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
04-29-2024, 12:00 AM | #15 | |
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 70
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Quote:
Regards Pete |
|
04-29-2024, 06:14 PM | #16 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 5,155
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Nobody can truly answer this for you - as it all depends on exactly where you mount the rear and how you mount it (front to back). Obviously, the spring location on a stock 39 rear is in a completely different location that on a 32 - 34 rear. This is a situation where being a 1/2" off isn't going to cut it.
I would mount the rear in the car as you want it (and only use maybe the main leaf of whatever spring you're using . . . to achieve the approximate ride height that you'll end up with. Then you can measure things and determine as close as possible the final length. Initially cut the torque-tube a bit long and tack it together - then see how it fits. Then modify it to get it exactly right. This requires the 32 transmission mount and the front piece (clamshell front ball) that the drive-shaft socket rides against. Another idea is once you cut your current Torque-Tube in 2 pieces, go get a chunk of 3" PVC pipe to run from your front piece to the back - to sort of manually mockup the length. You can screw with the PVC to get the final length figured out - before you make any final cuts to the driveshaft pieces. PVC is cheap - torque tubes are not. Get the torque tube length correct - then worry about the drive shaft. |
04-29-2024, 07:56 PM | #17 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,511
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
I've got a shortened later tube around here Unsure of history. ?? 52 5/8 " overall looks to be a 37/40 style Might have come with some '32 hot rod stuff. Newc
|
04-30-2024, 12:06 AM | #18 |
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 70
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
Again, thank you all for your help
|
04-30-2024, 08:18 AM | #19 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Wiscasset, Maine
Posts: 2,031
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
I was thinking about this dimension last night.
Mart's length is 1339mm/52.716" My length is 1349mm/53.125" I would use Mart's dimension since last year, hitting a large dip in the road at speed, I scraped a little paint off of my differential.
__________________
Archives of historical but relevant older articles: ------------- Hover mouse over the links below and click! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~--------------- Rumble Seat's Notes Techno-Source for the 1932 thru 1953 Flathead Ford |
04-30-2024, 08:20 AM | #20 |
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 70
|
Re: Merc 1939 axle in a 32 frame need help with torque tube lenght
well noted, i will use Mart measurement
|
|
|
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|