Thread: Ladder Bar Q

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If you are going to build your own cross member....you can put them outside the frame rails if you have the tire clearance......the only other issue that would have to be rectified would be adding a panhard bar from the chassis to the diff to complete a triangulated 3 link set up.
Ladder bars stop the forward and rearward motion of the axle and the panhard bar stops the side to side motion.

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If your building for the street the ladder bars should be a close together at the front as possible, putting them on the outside of the rails will make the rear axle act as a huge anti roll bar, not good for the street, parallel bars are fine for the straight track.

Originally Posted by roadster32

If your building for the street the ladder bars should be a close together at the front as possible, putting them on the outside of the rails will make the rear axle act as a huge anti roll bar, not good for the street, parallel bars are fine for the straight track.

this is out of curiosity.....not ment in any demeaning way......
If the ladder bars are set outside the frame rails....How does it act like a huge sway bar(Roll bar)? The reason Im asking is that 1- both sides are hinged seperately(no different from a leaf spring setup), 2-you still have articulation, travel based on coil spring and shock length, 3- the only way to get that roll bar effect is to tie in both sides of the axle with a swaybar, the sway bar is attached to the frame and to the boths sides of the axle thus reducing body roll......Im having a hard time understanding how a 3 link set up acts like roll bar without the roll bar itself.?