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Model A Chassis Assembly

I've been hearing it for years, too-don't use hairpins with a tube axle. Maybe so, but I've yet to see an example of the axle damage alluded to by those naysayers in my 35 years of rodding (it's common practice to use a four-bar setup with tube axles to prevent stress-cracking the forged axle ends, as tube axles don't have the torsional flex found in I-beam axles), so I'm going for form over function in this case.
Model A Chassis Assembly - From 'Rails To Rollers

 I've been hearing it for years, too-don't use hairpins with a tube axle. Maybe so, but I've yet to see an example of the axle damage alluded to by those naysayers in my 35 years of rodding (it's common practice to use a four-bar setup with tube axles to prevent stress-cracking the forged axle ends, as tube axles don't have the torsional flex found in I-beam axles), so I'm going for form over function in this case.  View Related Article

 

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