Traction bars
- Thread starter smkscrn
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There is no "little" bit of weight when it comes to being on E or filling it to F...
If you were to be on E and make the pin on the Caltracs touch barly the top of the leaf and then fill your tank up, you would then have to re adjust the caltracs because of how much gap would be in between the pin and the top of the leaf now. Thus as your driving down the road hitting bumps your susp compresses allowing the pin on the caltracs to beat the top of the leaf to death making lots of noise and sudden thuds...
Whatever turns your crank. They've always worked fine for me. With any kind of power you damn well need something. Without 'em the axle gets to bouncing real bad under acceleration. The Calracs were off for a couple weeks and I lost a U-joint during one little stoplight contest. It wasn't very funny.
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I agree they are def needed and the main reason I went with them is because I removed my rear overload spring and heard the axle wrap is alot more severe without them thus needing traction bars. I just need to continue to play with them for what works for me. I love them but DD wise just dont find them very good...
My main line of thinking on traction bars for myself is for towing my fiver. on rough roads it seems like I get a lot of axle wrap, adding to the bucking problem I already have. I'm hoping if I can eliminate the axle wrap the bucking will be reduced dramatically. Does this make any sense?
I actually just bought a set of Cognito bars to run on the street and if I go to the track I will throw the Caltracs on. I can't stand having a new truck the sounds like an old junker driving down the road.
My exact point!
How exactly are you going to switch? It is a straight pain to take out the drivers side leaf spring bolt in order to get the bracket for the caltrac out...
I am as well debating ordering a set of cognito bars and just ditching the caltracs...
I dont think mine are noisy either, I ran them a year with them just touching the springs, kinda made a lot of chatter, I run about 1 turn on the street and they seem to work fine I mean its a 3/4 ton truck I still have my overload spring in at the moment also, I run em everyday about 100+ miles, the only down side is the powder coating only lasted me through 1 winter
if it was me I would just remove the front caltrac bolt out of bracket and un screw the back of the bar from the rod end, screw on the long bar and fasten it to an alternate location on the frame, basically using the rear mount for the cal trac with the front mount for the bar
My plan is to leave the front Caltracs bracket on and use the Caltracs axle bracket for the Cognito bar end. The Cognito rear pivot is a hiem joint so hopefully it will work out. I will let you know fairly soon if they work.