BILL HUBLER'S NEW FRONT SUSPENSION

Here are some pictures of the new knuckles / hubs /ETC

that Bill Hubler has adapted to his GMC.

Bill is a very creative and friendly owner. He was eager to share his ideas and describe the difficulties of his projects. He has more on the way for our coaches, but is looking forward to some down time floating on the oceans of Mexico ;>)

I think he said these come from a 1 Ton Truck. He welded the new Parts to the old control arms.

Bill is a very creative builder. In his real life, he has been building turbine Crop Dusters

As always, the devil is in the details. He said the axles had to be special made to match the spline in the final drive. Cost hundreds of dollars to get these made. He is thinking of the next version, and is making a fixture to help in the alignment. With this version, he wanted more Caster, and he welded it in, but would like more. Wow this is not for your average bolt-it-on owner

Just in case you did not know, this is the same Bill Hubler who did the diesel conversion. Here is a link to his presentation at a rally

http://www.bdub.net/Diesel.pdf

Very interesting reading for the details, like it took cutting up 3 pans to the drive line through the pan in the proper location. His engine is shown below.