track bar?

i recently saw a post with a truck that had a track bar with 2 link that went from the back of the pass. side bar to the frame on the drivers side where the front of that bar mounts. does this truly work good for keeping the axle from moving? even with lots of lift? i have a 1980 c10 and found that with the frame being so narrow a panhard bar will move the rearend to much. is this a good cure?

Thanks

hells yea man works perfect,go look in my profile that is how mine is done and it is tha shit,i get some crazy lift,when its all the way up at 200 psi the tailgate almost comes up 2 my chin and im 6 feet tall

it looks like its on juice,lol

whatever u do dont do like they did on my white truck when i had it redone,they put a solid bar the size of the 2 link bar for one side 2 the other on the back and droped it down where it would clear the pumpkin on the rear end,that was shit cause when i left the shop and pulled into the gas station i almost didnt get in and almost riped all the gears out of the rear end cause it was at an incline and it pulled the back pass side tire off the ground cause the rearend wouldnt piviot,but the setup that mind 2 metal did on this truck i have now works perfect and dosent move side 2 side when u raise and lower the truck and drives straight when ur going down the road and raisin and lowerin the assend

my opion the only way 2 go besides a watts link for a 2 link

so you just need a pivot point on the one side of the axle that goes to the frame on the otherside at the same point at which the front of the 2 link bar mounts?

Originally posted by dirkbelt



hells yea man works perfect,go look in my profile that is how mine is done and it is tha shit,i get some crazy lift,when its all the way up at 200 psi the tailgate almost comes up 2 my chin and im 6 feet tall

it looks like its on juice,lol

I looked at your profile. The pictures themselves are smaller than the thumbnails. I can't see anything at all.

Maybe Max has a different opinion than I do on this matter, but I'm against diagonal links on street vehicles (thats what you guys are referring to). A track bar is another name for a panhard bar, nothing more.

Diagonal links produce a lot of force to its end points through turns as the axle tries to move laterally and after time they can break. Not only do you have all the stress of a non-flexible 2 link already on its axle mounting point, and now you are going to introduce more stress during cornering or going around a curve on an express way or some other high speed turn.

You can build a 2-link that will articulate.

Originally posted by TwistedMinis



You can build a 2-link that will articulate.True, but how many people do you know are willing to put in the time to do it? Not many. Most people that install a 2 link are lazy to begin with, so why would they want to take the extra time to improve it?

This is true. I built one for a '47 Chevy business coupe I bagged. I did it because of the limited space, and not wanting to cut much of the floor. It worked really well, and pivotted just behind the tranny. It articulated really well and rode awesome.