Hey! I have been taking it out 6 times this year so far. Nothing gnarly though, the Jeep club I run with is pretty tame.
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School me on panhard bars
- Thread starter Phil513
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Hey! I have been taking it out 6 times this year so far. Nothing gnarly though, the Jeep club I run with is pretty tame.
rompinstompinmudmonkey
1/2 ton status
I built a Panhard bar for my dually. With the combination of crossover steering, the weight of the Cummins, and the horrible scrub radius of the H1 wheels, the axle was actually moving side to side when I turned the wheel. I built a Panhard bar to match the angle of my drag link and the steering tightened up drastically
The main issue is they sometimes eat the leaf spring bushings... The side to side thing isn't great for them..
Why would you bother with a panhard if your side-to-side motion is already controlled by the bushings?
Leaf springs do alot of things. They hold up the vehicle, they locate the axle side to side, they locate the axle front to back, they prevent the axle from rotating
None of these things do they do great. The leaf spring is old school, like they used em on wagons old school.
Now link suspensions you start splitting up those dutys. Coils hold the vehicle up. Links do the locating and there can be several to split the job up.
A pahnard bar locates the axle side to side. In a Leaf spring suspension you will eventually get into a binding situation. But when a pahnard is added to leaf springs on road handling is usually improved.
None of these things do they do great. The leaf spring is old school, like they used em on wagons old school.
Now link suspensions you start splitting up those dutys. Coils hold the vehicle up. Links do the locating and there can be several to split the job up.
A pahnard bar locates the axle side to side. In a Leaf spring suspension you will eventually get into a binding situation. But when a pahnard is added to leaf springs on road handling is usually improved.
rompinstompinmudmonkey
1/2 ton status
I have a low lift and the panhard is parallel to the drag link. The leaf springs and bushings were new , but still had too much play in them. I have less side to side movement with a panhard bar than i did before i installed it. On trucks with tall lifts binding becomes more of an issue. Also, bump steer is now nonexistent
Should, yes
I have mostly seen Panhard rods on vehicles with coil spring suspension. Like previously posted leaf springs do not have much side-to-side movement, so a Panhard is not really necessary, but coil springs have almost no ability to control side-to-side movement. I had a 1968 C-30 Suburban with coil spring suspension all the way around, and it came factory with a Panhard on the rear 14-bolt FF.
A C30 Suburban?
I'd be interested in seeing pictures of this, haven't met one yet from any series. 
A C30 Suburban?
Excuse me...I meant C20. Good catch though. You reading very closely to catch that. This was a 1968 C20 Burb with a 396/T400/14-Bolt FF. I remember It had a tail-gate rear door.
