Robert, I suppose you have it on the road by now. I realize that is the suspension you realy want which is OK to keep it original. Just be aware that if the wheels do go into a violent shimmy you will have to bring it to a complete stop very quickly to eliminate the shaking. It is not a pleasant situation to be in on todays highways. I was doing wheel alingments when Ford PUs went with the twin I beam axles/radius rod front suspension. Its purpose was to provide a softer ride by using coil springs. It did ride smoother but was bad for tire wear. (Good for business) They were notorious for outside tire wear and for annialating radius arm bushings and their share of occational wheel shimmy. They were designed with way to much positive camber to start with. The assumtion they were work truck that would be loaded most of the time. Just the opposite was true. As the PU leaned during turns the outside wheel went more positive and the tire was riding on the outside tread all the time. Bending the I beams to reduce positive camber helped but did not eliminate the tire wear problem totally. Many years later Ford eventually added larger bushing and ball joins that allowed caster/camber changes and longer bushing change intervals. That was another money maker because the caster/camber cams were expensive plus additional labor cost to change. I do not know the reasons why Hudson stopped their experiment with this design but tire wear and shimmy probably had something to do with that decision. All cars have their qurks and we learn to adjust to them. Enjoy your car whatever you decide. I love my 52 Hornet, but I wish it handled as well as newer cars. I adjust and enjoy it for what it is.
Enjoy your car for what it is.
Lee O'Dell

Hello Lee O'Dell

Thank you for your thoughtful post. I agree - we should enjoy our cars for what they are, and not for what they would be if conformed to some theoretical ideal. My post was an attempt to find out if I might be on the way to re-inventing the wheel, so to speak.

It seems pretty clear that there can be episodes of shimmy, and the way to stop one of them is to stop. I hear that. I have had shimmy on Model A Fords that was caused by too small spring load on tie rod and drag link ends.
Eliminated by careful adjustment, trial and error. One fellow stopped all that by re-arching front springs. Now I wonder about a ride height specification. I'm sure there is one.

I have one of the later Ford pickups with the Twin I beam front end. I kind of forgot that the earlier ones had way too much positive camber.
But they do.

I'll get into the steering and suspension of my 1934 car a bit later, after I get the tuneup fixed. Gotta run. Thansk again. Robert

I now notice that my car sits up high in the front. Maybe that means I'll have no Axleflex problems !! Do you reckon so?