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Idler arm changes: early to late---update 444-544

posted by  Boulder444 on  Mon Oct 17 15:11 CST 2005
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I guess I'm stumped then...

I poked my head under the '57 again after reading your last post Steve and saw this:

http://www.pbase.com/image/50901150/original

Then I took a closer look at the early style NOS 444 arm...

http://www.pbase.com/image/50901166/original

and then compared the two...

http://www.pbase.com/image/50901147/original

I guess someone in the last 48 years snuck a later style arm into my '57. I checked out the steering box though and it looks about right for a later 544. Hmmm. No retrofitted plates, though... Could someone have just welded new frame horns on in order to get a later 544 suspension?

According to the factory manual the PV444 steering box has a rounded shape with a big nut on top. The later PV544 has one that is square, and has a lock nut style adjuster on top. My '57 has the latter. Hmmm...

I'll keep trying to id this beast. Anybody out there have both a 444 and a 544 sitting in their workshop?

Thanks,
Aiden
Boulder, CO
1957 PV444L
1966 220 (For Sale!)






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