04 Dodge Ram....a little at a time..

everything still has to be weilded up and cleaned up but it is coming along.....

watts link looks bad ass..... but just a thought. why is the right side mount so high. triangulation should be equal on both sides and the bars should be the same link at all times up and down unless you want the rear end to do something different. if you made a mark on the ground and a large speed square next to it then dropped a plum bob off the rear cross that plum bob should move straight up and down next to the square...... or i could just be looking at the picture funny.

We moved the bars for about 3-4 hours trying to find a place where the bars would hold it in a stright line. What we did, and it working, was put the top mount the same amount from the top of the frame as the bottom was from the bottom of the frame, and it held it in a stright line all the way through travel.   I will not be getting much travel because of a bag over axle set up so this should work for what we are running.

Edited: 4/24/2010 5:07:13 PM by AZ ARTWORX

dont do a bag over its so old tech do a six link to the back it lifts and rides so nice ill give you more pics if you need them to help yaand the watts has to has to be exactly the same trianglation on both sides at ride highth just flipped 

I undertand that it may be old tech but it is also proven, and I'm not sure how well a 6 link would hold up pulling a trailer.

As far as the watts link goes, I'm not sure you understood my first post.

With the brackets being the same length from the frame rail they will be at the same angle. We went through the travel and the rearend did not pull to either side, it stayed exactly in place. They have the same angles.

well if you look at the way the six link is angled at ride level it has more opposition than a bag over. the bag is farther to the rear making the force of a trailer that much better. you have the opportunity to add way more pressure to your pull because a bag over will max out with weight a lever suspension will not.  watts...... same length is important but same opposing space top and bottom to form the geometry of this to this.           .    [      .    [      .    [      .            [     .    [    .    [  -----------------------------------------o--------------------------------------- ]                                                 . ]                                        . ]                               . ]                      . ]            . ] . is that what you have if you measure it or is that what you think you have because you moved the mounts around till you found a sweet spot. just clarifying  and i saw you asking about the triple bags. uhg man please don't too much bounce it is called an adjustable air spring those are balloons i rip that crap out of customers failures all week long. a six link with a watts is the strongest most dependable way to go. 

just sayin cause you already have everything else done just two links and mount the bag off the back off the frame then you can do whatever you want in you bed without the limitations of a bag over apparatus in your way shiot put some bails a hay back there. just trying to help bro your not in the wrong direction at all. just avenues that might make it work and look that much better you already have so much other cool stuff goin on hate to see it stop in the rear

i was reading some of your earlier post about the reposess thats some funny shiot. i got a title lone to do my first truck they tried to come get it and freaked out told me they were gunna press charges funny shiot.

 

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