Thread: Dropped Axle

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maybe I am in the minority here, of all the street rods you have seen with dropped axles, roughly what percentage of those have a front panhard bar?

Just about all the cross-steer axle setups I've seen have a panhard bar.

Never seen a panhard on a side-steer (fore & aft draglink) setup.

A panhard on a cross-steer setup makes for a solid steering car since it doesn't allow the drag link to push the chassis sideways on the shackles.
All steering inputs go toward moving the steering arm.

More consistent steering on corners as well since centrifugal force on the chassis doesn't create steering inputs.
The panhard resists the chassis centrifugal forces.

Nutbush, I think you and I are definitely in the minority as I don't have a panhard rod on my 32. Never seemed to need one.

However, I had a 32 pickup that we built for drag racing and it wanted to make a left turn on the 1st to 2nd shift, and the addition of the panhard rod straightened it out.

Mick