Traction bars (1 Viewer)

[lowtideride]

Im gonna fab one up this weekend...Any cool ideas out there????...checked out the ones in Tech...but was wondering what you guys are using... I would not mind fabbing up a shorter ones than I have seen. I saw a shorter version a while back and looked pretty good IMHO...

If ya got any tips post them up....pics would be cool.


-Al

I def need one after the last trip...

 

[TOY350]

I'm looking to do one too, SOA w/ stock springs has to have that axle wrapping up. I haven't seen any problems but I haven't looked either. I should have 82-SOA-60 point the camera down there on our next outing and I bet my next project will be a traction bar.

I have seen so many different ideas out there that it has me confused. You obviously don't want to interfere with flexing up but also want it to work. I will be real interested in what you come up with Al, you have set the bar pretty high with those rear quarters you did!

 

[muddogbob]

Here's mine. It works well, but it does transfer some vibrations through the body. I plan to fab up a tube cross member between the fram rails and mount it to that to get rid of the vibs.

 

[muddogbob]

upper mount

It's made out of 3 busings, 1 heim, 1 bung, a few feet of 1.5" .25" DOM and 1.25" .25" DOM trusses and the brackets you see.

 

[lowtideride]

are you using bushings on both ends? hard to see in that pic....

I have stiffer lift springs and i was still hoping like a mofo at the very tops of the hills on the trail.

 

[Waggoner5]

Here is a design by JK Customs on my 62

 

[woody]

enhanced for the vision impaired....

 

[lowtideride]

Wow, wag...love that design... haha thanks woody i was having a tuff time seeing that.

where it's fabbed the the axle does it move it all ? beacuse this one doesnt look like it has a shackle like the others??? lil more info....but as of now i am build somthing like that.

 

[soggy60]

Yo Low...

muddogbob's set up 'looks' like it will better allow axle 'travel' fore-aft.

I can't tell, from the pic, if the JK unit has an upper flex joint on the body end...

 

[Waggoner5]

How much more flex do you really want or need? The rear moves a lot when it has some weight in back. The shackle is on the front link. There is a huge heim joint at the top of that link, providing all the movement.

 

[TOY350]

Hey Wag, can you crawl under there a little further and take a pic of the heim joint? That setup looks very clean, I would like to see every aspect though. Thanks.

 

[lowtideride]

Ditto what Toy said.....me gonna make that this weekend...if i get to the steel shop in time.

 

[Waggoner5]

Here you go. Jason made an extra crossmember to bolt the forward link to. It runs from side to side and ties in the sliders.

 

[woody]

more enhancing...

the JK bar is a nice setup IMO

 

[HZJ60 Guy]

I dont get it. It looks like that forward link can pivot forward and aft. If so what is then preventing the springs from wrapping?


TB

 

[TOY350]

Very clean and up and out of the way. I like it. You should have him fab some kits up and sell those things.

 

[jwest]

I dont get it. It looks like that forward link can pivot forward and aft. If so what is then preventing the springs from wrapping?


TB

The angle from the forward link to the heim/crossmember has to be 90 degrees to prevent the axle from the twisting motion associated with spring wrap.

The bar allows the axle to move up/down, forward/backward and side/side. It's the 90 degree angle that braces the axle from twist.

 

[cruzer]

my fav is using a slip joint. you use two diffrent pieces of tubing that slip in and out of one another. that way it can twist and slip. it works very well. and all you need are 3 bushings.

Stew

 

[Waggoner5]

Exactly.

 

[crawlin60]

About Jason K (maker of Waggs setup), he does sell it as a kit, but it goes for serious coinage, over three franklins, IIRC...
Sweet stuff, tho...