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designing traction/ladder bars

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Old 06-13-2006, 11:13 AM
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They are kind of hard to see in this pic, but on my old truck I fabbed up some bars that worked really well.

I just used a solid piece of tubing and welded two plates one on each side of the frame and then made a bracket on the axle so that the bar came down in the center of the axle instead of having it on the top or the bottom.

Also when I made them, I made sure that the bar had the exact same angle as the drive shaft that way it had no play what so ever.......things worked awesome.



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Old 06-18-2006, 10:05 AM
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I can't see how these bars do anything except bind the suspension from compressing. They can't have much affect on axle wrap if they connect to the center of the axle tube - no leverage to resist torque. Just looking at it, simple geometry tells me the length of the bar exceeds the length of the arc it must travel as the suspension compresses. Your driveshaft should have a sliding link that compensates for this arc, these bars don't

This appears to be an example of "seemed like a good idea at first," but turned out not to be. At least they look good from a distance, but sadly up close, turn out to be one of those "all show and no go"-type things.
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