Adjustable Track Bar

[stllookn]

I pulled the springs from my '67 stepside and dropped it onto the frame. I was looking for the track bar to push the rearend to the passenger side. I measured the rearend and it is actually closer to the driver's side by about 1/2 inch. This means it was really out when in the normal operating position. No problem with skinny tires but has anyone else noticed this when you drop your truck?

[low burb]

Yes, you will need an adjustable one or extend the stock one. I used the one from ECE.

[stllookn]

Yes, I am aware that I will need to adjust the length but my point was that the rearend should have shifted way over to the passenger side but when lowered. However mine was still closer to the drivers side! I am wondering if anyone else has seen this.

[mac]

Stl -- Is anything bent? I've seen the diff track arm mt pin actually crack and separate from the rear housing. I've measured mine and found it off too but I don't recall which way as its been quite a while ago.

I was looking at the new Classic Truck mag yesterday and saw a bar that mounts on the rt aft of the diff and uses a roller bearing at the frame mount with an adjustable heim joint at the diff mount. The bar has a dog leg in it to get it to the diff mount bracket. Looks like an easy fab up.

[stllookn]

Nothing bent or broken. I am probably going to thread the end of the track bar and put a rod end on there for adjustment. It just seems awfully strange to me but I have one other truck I can check when the ground dries up to see how it compares.

[Tx Firefighter]

It's geometry.

The bar is running uphill now, rather than downhill, like it was stock.

At exactly level bar, the rear will be the farthest to the right. As you lower it even lower past horizontal bar, it pulls the rear back toward the driver's side where it was stock.

If you lowered it enough to where the track bar had exactly the opposite angle as it did stock, you'd not even need an adjustable bar.

If you can't understand what I'm saying, draw an arc on a piece of paper to simulate the travel of the right side of the track bar through it's suspension travel. At exactly level, the line is longest. Anywhere above or below level, the line is shorter.

[stllookn]

Tex, thanks, but I completely understand the geometry. I am just surprised at the location of the rearend going over center on the arc...it is still shifted to the drivers side when it should be closer to the passenger side.