My truck is my daily driver, 98 ECSB 4.3, automatic, 10 bolt rear end with 3.42s and a lock right locker. 75% of my driving is done on dirt roads or trails, and often times it involves climbing steep hills with loose or rocky terrain. Since I've installed the locker traction is a lot better but I find now that when it does spin it gets some pretty bad wheel hop. I'm looking to eliminate it before I bust a u joint or do any other damage.
Now, the thing still has stock sized tires, 235/75/15s, as well as the stock suspension. It is certainly not a rock crawling flexing machine. It has air shocks in the rear, I only tow a couple times a year maybe. My only concern is that the traction bars might bind the suspension travel. I was planning on using the adjustable tractor lift arms, the kind with heim joints on either end. I would cut them in half and lengthen them too. Then weld mounts on the frame and the bottom of the axle. I'm a welder/metal fabricator by trade so getting the work done properly isn't an issue. I've been thinking about this method because I don't think my purposes necessitate a full on ladder bar or 4 link setup and it seems relatively easy.
So with stock suspension travel and relatively mild terrain will a set of traction bars bind up my suspension?
Now, the thing still has stock sized tires, 235/75/15s, as well as the stock suspension. It is certainly not a rock crawling flexing machine. It has air shocks in the rear, I only tow a couple times a year maybe. My only concern is that the traction bars might bind the suspension travel. I was planning on using the adjustable tractor lift arms, the kind with heim joints on either end. I would cut them in half and lengthen them too. Then weld mounts on the frame and the bottom of the axle. I'm a welder/metal fabricator by trade so getting the work done properly isn't an issue. I've been thinking about this method because I don't think my purposes necessitate a full on ladder bar or 4 link setup and it seems relatively easy.
So with stock suspension travel and relatively mild terrain will a set of traction bars bind up my suspension?
