trevor g
+1y
...and did you notice I still have no pics of the 2 link set up or any info???
do I just run thick wall square tubing from the front leaf hanger? What about the rear end sitting on the tubing? How do I do that? do I have to have a some sort of saddle for the rear end to sit in?
do I just run thick wall square tubing from the front leaf hanger? What about the rear end sitting on the tubing? How do I do that? do I have to have a some sort of saddle for the rear end to sit in?
lowboy
+1y
Run either 2x2 1/4" or 2x3 3/16". Either really works. Yes you can use the stock front spring perch. What i try and do is put the drive line and the bar in the same "plane". Kind of difficult to describe. but a generic descripsion would at ride height your drive line and 2 link bar are some what parallel to each other. An exageraged example would be like in an s-10 using the stock front spring perch. The drive line is some what parallel to the ground where the 2 link bar is pointed down. You'll get a lot of pinion angle variance thru your rear end that way. On MY dually i felt the front spring perch was a little low. So i used a drop perch from bell tech that i had laying around. use 2x3 3/16. made a trip to my local trailer supply store, had some 5/8" "u" bolts made in the lenght i needed, (I always use new u-bolts) along with some new spring pads, and a new spring perchs. I then cut all the factory shock mounts, spring perchs off the axle, put an alignment pin in my new 2 link bar, mocked everything. set my pinion angle where i thought it should be and welded the new spring perch to the axle. Took everything apart, finished welding, painted and put back together. I dont have any pics. sorry.
low95xlt
+1y
damn drag thats tight
as long as it is built right anything is good if it is done correct
as long as it is built right anything is good if it is done correct
jcampbell1180
+1y
I realize I'm going to sound like a tool, but on a two link, how do you keep your rear end from shifting side to side? Panhard bar? Or would that make it a three link?
dragnasty
+1y
Most people run panhard bars but the new way of doing it is the run a cross link from the front of one of the two link bars the the rear of the other two link bar. Kind of like a Z link. I fully weld the rear end to the link bars making the rear end housing the actual cross brace.