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Rear traction bar discussion.

82355

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My 1990 K5 will climb anything I can get the front tires onto. Then the back tires become involved, and it starts to wheel hop. It's a real boner killer. I am thinking a traction bar would cure most of my woes. Tell me what you have, and what you like dislike about it.

My first two thoughts are to buy either a ORD kit, or a DIY4X kit or to just build a similar designed one. If you have either an ORD or DIY4X, tell me what you thought of them.

Martin
 
Martin I run a torquey BBC and don't hesitate to nail it. I have Kerts Wraptor system, and it works great.
I've hit it hard on dry pavement and have yet to experience wheel hop caused from axle wrap. The tires will spin, but not wrap the springs up.

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separate, it don't NEED the truss, but can be used with it.
 
A rear traction bar is one of the best things you can do with a leaf sprung rig. Mine has REALLY helped me out over the past couple years, especially in the sand.

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Avery does your design articulate as well?
It looks stout!
 
Averys has all the things needed.

You need it to pivot, his does, you need it attached to the frame with a shackle or something that can move back and forth, and attached to the axle at 2 points.

I prefer the shackle pointing upwards but he does sand so I am sure he is well acquainted with axle hop and how well his traction bar works.

Any of the examples above would work, I will be building one for Horton in the rear that is pretty much exactly like Averys except my traction bar will be at the top of the shackle and the frame mount will be below it.

Traction bars work wonders for leaf springs
 
76zimmer said:
Avery does your design articulate as well?
It looks stout!
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It is, I've found some pretty good sized dings in the bottom of it from dropping the back end of the truck off a rock on it and it's just fine. It articulates fine for what I'm running out back. It has a Ballistic Fab joint I bought years ago before they were a company not worth supporting.

82355 said:
I imagine yours is home made?

Martin
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Yeah, home made.
 
sorry for being off topic here, but avery what kind of rear axle is that? with the double joint at the top?
 
I was reading in a suspension book, that they actually take the force that the axle is trying to wrap with, and it causes the axle to push down giving you more traction... Idk if you all knew that, but I thought it was kinda interesting.


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You are correct dueling, and you could fool the 4 link calculator into calculating your antisquat by just making both sides exactly the same front/back and up/down. But it's very simple because your IC point is the point it attaches to the frame.
 
wage92 said:
sorry for being off topic here, but avery what kind of rear axle is that? with the double joint at the top?
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The axle is just a built 14ff, the drive shaft is a cv shaft so I don't have any vibes. Go look/post in my build thread if you want more info so we don't clutter up this thread.:thumb:
 
I run the Kert's Wraptor also. Like Zimm said I can use all the throttle I want and no spring wrap or tire hop, just goes.


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On a side note before I installed it I had so much spring wrap I was binding a 1410 U joint when hard on the throttle.
 
Mine is the ORD one in the longest made. I can roll the 39.5s with no problem and the only wheel hop now is from the front.
 
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