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Jan 10, 2006 | 02:32 PM

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monsterbaby

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You should at least tie the bottom of the upper bracket in to the engine crossmember. After they are that way for a while they will crack the frame or the bracket.

Umm have you looked at stock 70s track bar brackets? or worse yet extended brackets used on lifted trucks? those aren't braced like you are suggesting and they don't break the bracket or the frame.
Actually I don't see that setup as bieng scary at all it looks a lot safer than a lot of stuff I seen done like using lift blocks on front axles.

Jan 10, 2006 | 11:07 PM

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DaveBowman

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Umm have you looked at stock 70s track bar brackets? or worse yet extended brackets used on lifted trucks?

Yes, and even with stock suspoension they are very common to crack the frame on the bottom of the rail, or between the holes where the engine crossmember is riveted on. Take a walk through a junk yard and look. I'll bet 1/4 of them have the cracks there. The extended brackets on lifted trucks make the problem even worse.

Jan 11, 2006 | 01:24 PM

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never seen it personally, not sayin it couldnt happen, just saying. oh, and i also worked ina junkyard, and still i say, never seen it.

Jan 11, 2006 | 07:01 PM

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I'll get some pictures for you. I have a ~75 frame that has the crack there and a 70 F100 4x4 at work that has them real bad.

Jan 11, 2006 | 07:50 PM

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k, let us know when you get them.

Jan 12, 2006 | 01:44 AM

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monsterbaby

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Yeah I would like to see that, I have owned a 69, 73, 74 2 76s, 77, and 3 79s and it never happened to any of them but I have seen them crack around the steering box a couple of times.

Jan 12, 2006 | 03:21 AM

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1BadB2

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i totally disagree with the people saying you dont need a brace. maybe you guys just dont wheel or wheel hard enough i dunno? when we do our SAS its a must..ive seen so many brackets get torn straight off...here is how we build em.

Jan 12, 2006 | 04:38 PM

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chrono4

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dont wheel um hard enough? most of the people on this forum wheel harder than most of them out there.

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Jan 12, 2006 | 06:59 PM

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DaveBowman

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I think pirate has more hard core wheelers than any other site, and its very common knowledge over there about the cracks and how track bar brackets need to be built

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