front ladder bars

[roachie]

I just seen the thread on the custom bars for lifted trucks. That got me to thinking about the front suspesion on the dodges. Its a 4 link wiht rubber bushings and short bars.

Are the pullers doing anything about these? Like solid bushings, longer arms, ect. If we put all this though into the wheelbase and hangning wieght why allow the front to move?

 

[csutton7]

I built some longer arms for mine yrs ago---it makes my truck not fit the rules for some organizations because the OEM frame mounts on my truck are gone and I made my own mounts---I modeled my arms off the Dick Cepek lift kit arms and bought the part that reinforces a body mount that you have to cut for the upper arms---my bottom arm is like 55" long and the top arm around 48" or so if I remember right, which are actually longer than the Cepek kit arms---I've never hung weights as my truck is to heavy, but I've had no issues pulling and street driving---but you should check the rules or you'll be pulling exhibition or not at all---which sucks IMO, but those are the rules for some-----chris

 

[roachie]

Wonder if ther would be any benifit if you just switched to solid bushings?

 

[csutton7]

I forgot to add my truck is lifted 7"--unless your truck is lifted I'm not sure what it will add, but it certainly shouldn't hurt---I did it because my truck was hopping and doing this along with longer rear bars took the hops right out of it-----but again you need to check the rules----I used heim joints on mine also......chris

 

[XLR8R]

We're installing adjustable control arms on a 3rd Gen & custom length control arms on a 2nd Gen - both with zero deflection bushings... soft rubber OEM biscuits are :Throwup: