Corey,
As was mentioned, I usually try to talk people out of the "Buggy Spring" mod. This is why:
1) Believe it or not, you CAN get too much travel in the front end. It's great to have 2+ feet of travel when rolling across a fairly level boulder field, but when you start to climb waterfalls and really steep obstacles - you'll hate it. The truck will try to "wheelie" over on it's tailgate as the front suspension unloads. I always say that the place to go for sick travel is in the rear.
2) Track bar thing gets complex. I've experimented with at least three different mounting locations for my front track bar - and I've settled on an arrangement that works - but limits travel to about 23 or 24" of travel. Over the years, I've probably broken the track bar on the front 5 or so times, and driven it home with out one - which was scary!... For the "frame mount" end of the track bar, I finally found that a .5" thick reinforced bracket welded to the frame would hold up.
3) If one or both of the front tires extends full and is getting good traction, the front axle can try to "walk out" from under the truck. An extended spline driveshaft is a necessity!... Also, I've kinked 2 sets of springs in this way. So, you wind up limiting the amount of droop of the buggy spring in order to keep things in check. But this is "opposite" to what your trying to do, so the whole design kinda starts working against itself.
I did the buggy's on my truck sometime in 1997. I drive ~15k mi/yr, so I think that I may have 60k miles of driving time on the front end. The drawbacks are not enough for me to remove the buggy's from the truck - but I must admit that I've thought about it a couple of times...
If you really need 2+ feet of travel for the front, I'd suggest doing a coil over setup like Watsons, or copying the front James Duff "long arm" travel for Broncos...
If you still wanna do it, I'll provide any info I can.
Marv
