Traction Bars
10-01-2014, 07:16 PM
#101
Senior Member
This truck hauls A**
They also put all of their power down to just the rear wheels. I put it down with all four and so far run 11.8s (high 1.7 60') with no bars at all but wheel hope is slowing me down. I wonder how much better I can do with, well, anything.
I was thinking about making some of my own bars just for racing and to be taken off for DD. I was wondering if the lower shock mounts would support the stress of long bars then attaching to existing frame holes. I could make bars for about $40 in metal and fab it up at work.
I was thinking about making some of my own bars just for racing and to be taken off for DD. I was wondering if the lower shock mounts would support the stress of long bars then attaching to existing frame holes. I could make bars for about $40 in metal and fab it up at work.
Pretty stout if you ask me .... I bet if you make your own custom made bars it will help you and at a fraction of the cost ..... I will always attempt to make things if I have the means to do so before I spend like 600ish
on something that should cost around 250.00 .... Wait for the specs and copy them .... My buddies do it all the time with odds and ends they need ...they hate being taken to the cleaners too ..... 
10-01-2014, 08:48 PM
#102
I put a set of traction bars on my truck. I made them from 304 s.s. 1 1/2 sch. 40 tubing. Used 3/4 heim joints on each end. One side is left hand thread and the other is right hand thread, so they are adjustable. They isn't much room on the axle for a backet so I came right of my u bolts with a plate and a clevis welded to the plate. Bars are about 72" long and then have a clevis welded to the frame rail. My u-bolts that came with my lift were very long which help out. With the lift and bigger tires I was getting bad axle hop, chatter what ever you want to call it. These bars help out a lot with that and I think the key to that is the adjustability of them. I put them on then tighten them up til I see the pinion drop down a little then tighten the jam nuts up. I use my truck a lot too. I haul 2 tons of coal in the bed when I get my coal for the winter, which is like 2 times a month and it does awesome burn out too, very smooth.
Can get more pics if guys would like.
Can get more pics if guys would like.
10-10-2014, 12:44 AM
#106
I put a set of traction bars on my truck. I made them from 304 s.s. 1 1/2 sch. 40 tubing. Used 3/4 heim joints on each end. One side is left hand thread and the other is right hand thread, so they are adjustable. They isn't much room on the axle for a backet so I came right of my u bolts with a plate and a clevis welded to the plate. Bars are about 72" long and then have a clevis welded to the frame rail. My u-bolts that came with my lift were very long which help out. With the lift and bigger tires I was getting bad axle hop, chatter what ever you want to call it. These bars help out a lot with that and I think the key to that is the adjustability of them. I put them on then tighten them up til I see the pinion drop down a little then tighten the jam nuts up. I use my truck a lot too. I haul 2 tons of coal in the bed when I get my coal for the winter, which is like 2 times a month and it does awesome burn out too, very smooth.
Can get more pics if guys would like.
Can get more pics if guys would like.
Sounds exactly like one of our projects we have planned this winter for a few sets of long bars! You did a great job and used the very similar mounting points as we have planned out...only real difference is we are going to attempt to make them a bolt on affair, maybe look into marketing them once we do our R&D. Stifflers does great stuff but we are curious about the possibilities of our own design.
10-10-2014, 01:33 AM
#107
Senior Member
Ive watched your Youtube clips ... Man that truck flat out hauls A** .... correct me if Im wrong but don't you run bigger than stock tires and run it in 4wd ... Pretty stout if you ask me .... I bet if you make your own custom made bars it will help you and at a fraction of the cost ..... I will always attempt to make things if I have the means to do so before I spend like 600ish on something that should cost around 250.00 .... Wait for the specs and copy them .... My buddies do it all the time with odds and ends they need ...they hate being taken to the cleaners too .....
Pretty stout if you ask me .... I bet if you make your own custom made bars it will help you and at a fraction of the cost ..... I will always attempt to make things if I have the means to do so before I spend like 600ish on something that should cost around 250.00 .... Wait for the specs and copy them .... My buddies do it all the time with odds and ends they need ...they hate being taken to the cleaners too .....
10-13-2014, 06:43 PM
#108
Senior Member
Bump. After my track experience on a prepped sticky track at a rental..... wow. My 2.5 second 60' times and low 92-93 mph trap speed from the truck more or less shutting down when the rear end started jumping off the ground proves how bad I need bars lol. This truck easily has low 14's if not high 13's in it but I can't get out of the hole to prove that. With bars and the diff locked I think 2 second 60' times could be done pretty easily.... better probably needs more power. I mean a crew cab Hemi Ram was running neck and neck with me... and that's not normal... but he could pan his heap and just go..... I would bounce around like a yo yo and have to play catch up..... and still win anyway lol.
