AgitatedPancake
05-25-2011, 03:44 AM
So while I still have an axle to get built for this weekends moonrocks trip in my jeep, I've had some other commitments to take care of along the way, including these caltrac bars I've been building :cool:. The car is a mono leaf car, has 450+ HP, and a fabbed 9" with 4.10 gears and a detroit locker. The first time he took it out after the rear end swap it twisted so hard the pinion hit the floorboard :smt082. Anyhow, I built a set of DIY caltrac bars with some ruff stuff specialties heims, some big bolts and a little torchmate work.
If you guys haven't seen how these things work, it's pretty interesting. It's a little swing shackle setup that the bar attatches to, which forces the rearward (smaller) bolt down into the leaf spring, effectively stopping axle wrap.
I had to cut a little over 1/4" width off each side of the rubber press in bushing to allow the plates to squeeze between the mounts, but I only removed rubber leaving the inner bolt sleeve. This allows the plates hinge on the inner sleeve of the bushing I left
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1700.jpg
And the other end bolts to brackets welded to the u-bolt plate
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1705.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1709.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1711.jpg
And then we installed them in the car hehe.
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1714.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1715.jpg
And they don't hang down way too low
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1716.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1717.jpg
If you guys haven't seen how these things work, it's pretty interesting. It's a little swing shackle setup that the bar attatches to, which forces the rearward (smaller) bolt down into the leaf spring, effectively stopping axle wrap.
I had to cut a little over 1/4" width off each side of the rubber press in bushing to allow the plates to squeeze between the mounts, but I only removed rubber leaving the inner bolt sleeve. This allows the plates hinge on the inner sleeve of the bushing I left
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1700.jpg
And the other end bolts to brackets welded to the u-bolt plate
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1705.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1709.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1711.jpg
And then we installed them in the car hehe.
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1714.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1715.jpg
And they don't hang down way too low
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1716.jpg
http://agitatedpancake.com/random/jeep/caltracs/IMG_1717.jpg