Need some ideas about these guys and gals.
Please post some pics of your ladder bars for leaf spring trucks
I used tractor 3 point top links, cut them in half, put 1.25 round steel stock (I think that was the diameter of the inside?) in and used that for the bars, as for the mounts I used tear drops I made on the mill, one set on the axle and one set up on the frame just behind my transfer case mount.
make you upper mount a shackel so it moves and will allow your springs to work right. fixed mounts at both ends with limit how well the rear susp works and it can bend the bars
Quote from: betterbeaters on December 09, 2013, 10:37:57 PM
make you upper mount a shackel so it moves and will allow your springs to work right. fixed mounts at both ends with limit how well the rear susp works and it can bend the bars
if front mount is a shackle would it not defeat the purpose and allow it to wrap still ?
Quote from: NuttinButtMudd on December 09, 2013, 11:07:50 PM
Quote from: betterbeaters on December 09, 2013, 10:37:57 PM
make you upper mount a shackel so it moves and will allow your springs to work right. fixed mounts at both ends with limit how well the rear susp works and it can bend the bars
if front mount is a shackle would it not defeat the purpose and allow it to wrap still ?
Nope he's right if both ends are fixed the suspension WILL bind to some extent some worse than others here's a couple pics of what I had in my jeep worked great. Before I built it you could watch the pinion point to the sky when on the throttle, after axle wrap was GONE. and it still flexed great.
[url=http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0394.jpg](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0394.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/mudbuster/media/jeep/100_0394.jpg.html)[/URL]
[url=http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0391.jpg](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0391.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/mudbuster/media/jeep/100_0391.jpg.html)[/URL]
[url=http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0392.jpg](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/100_0392.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/mudbuster/media/jeep/100_0392.jpg.html)[/URL]
as you can see in this pic it still flexed Pretty dam good loll and that's with 38's
[url=http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/Picture016.jpg](http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m29/mudbuster/jeep/Picture016.jpg) (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/mudbuster/media/jeep/Picture016.jpg.html)[/URL]
When leaf springs flex they get longer, hence shackles to allow the extra movement, solid bars work but limit the suspensions ability to flex right, adding a shackle to the front of the traction bars will not counter effect the purpose of them enough to notice a difference in the amount of axle wrap
thanks for the pics Mudbuster
==np