Thread: Watt's Link!

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FMX---Forget the Watts link. On a truck like yours, it won't do a damn thing for you. It costs a lot, requires twice as many parts as a Panhard rod, and requires a great deal more fabricating skills. Take a look at the attached picture---a panhard rod is pivotted at the drivers side framerail and attached to the passenger side axle tube.---yes, if you have a ford rearend, you can make a bracket which bolts to the front snout of the rearend, using existing bolts, and avoid welding on the axle tube.---either way will work fine. Watts Locator Links are for road handling on high end sportscars. They are a waste of money on a truck. The reason you need any kind of locator mechanism is that on a car or truck with coil springs, the body can move from side to side as the springs bend, and your inner wheelwells will get chewed up by your tires, or vice-versa. If your vehicle has leaf springs, it doesn't need a locator mechanism, because leaf springs won't bend sideways.----don't confuse these locator mechanisms with "sway bars"---thats something else again.