Another build thread? Yep, my track-style T

[J. Robinson]

Before I can proceed further with mounting the springs, I need something to keep the axle and frame centered to each other. A Watt's Link or Jacobs Ladder might be "geometrically desirable", but there isn't room for all the extra linkage and bracketry in the nose of this car. Many builders, including me, have used panhard bars in cars of all kinds for years and that is what I used here.

I fabricated the bar in the same manner as I did the radius rods earlier, using modified coupling nuts welded into the ends of cross-drilled tubing. The bracket that is attached to the frame on the passenger side has 3 holes in it so that end of the bar can be adjusted up or down to keep the bar level if the ride height is adjusted up or down. The other end, attached to the axle just outboard of the frame, only has one hole because it moves with the axle. In its installed position, the bar is immediately behind and below the axle beam. With the nose in place it will almost become invisible.