Topic: question about yota with wheel hop

[brad091703]

hey guys, i just built a 84 pick up with f-150 rear springs. and well i have no bed on the truck with the double shackel set up and. well when i go up a hill with a good amount of the skinny the back axle likes to start hopoing. as the double shackels try to unfold. right now i dont have any back shocks on it . could that cause my wheel hop. or could it be cause of not much weight?


thanks for your help guys
Brad

[xxxfirstgen]

Get rid of the double shakle thing. If my friend wouldn't have had those things on his truck we wouldn't have rolled it. Adding some shocks would also help but I would definetly get rid of the double shackles first.

[toynorcal]

The double shackles are not your problem. Put shocks on it, with out them the rear of your rig is just a pogo-stick.

[Ramrod]

f150s are like the softest springs in the world get some dang shocks

[Rocksurfer]

Shocks!!!!

[brad091703 [OP]]

hahaha. i thought that was my problem... lol... i just went on a trip like that, haha. i was going nutz...

[79coyotefrg]

SHOCKS

[CTENG in KS]

SHOCKS

thought i could join the party...ditch the gimmick shakles and build a track bar cause soft springs will wrap. 

[brad091703 [OP]]

i cant not use the double shackels . cause i bobed my frame. so i have no room to move the new hanger back. and doesnt a track bar only keep your axle from going side to side. wouldnt i have to set up some 2link type bars from front to back of the truck.?  thanks guys for all of your help

[CTENG in KS]

Thats what a track bar is...the "side to side" link is a panhard bar.  Do a search on trackbars and look here: http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=7088.0
How much frame do you have left...you can move the mount back as far as possible and run a longer shackle.  Or yo could pin the second shackle to the frame so it can't drop open.

[brad091703 [OP]]

no no your wrong. a track bar is side to side . and a panhard bar is front to back. i have a 1993 jeep cherokee with coil front end, it has a TRACK BAR.     no my brother had a 97 trans am and it had a rear PANHARD BAR . for axle wrap.

[CTENG in KS]

Are you trying to be funny?
Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panhard_rod

[brad091703 [OP]]

okay so your saying everyone that has ever sold a lift kit for a jeep is wrong when they say it comes with a track bar drop? never ever is it called a panhard bar?

[brad091703 [OP]]

no matter what they call a track bar and a panhard bar the same thing. its the way that there used. track is side to side. and panhard is front to back.

[CTENG in KS]

Sorry I tried to help bud...

[RustRunner]

Are you trying to be funny?
Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panhard_rod

"A Panhard rod may also be known as a Track bar"

thats right from the link you posted.

[brad091703 [OP]]

yup yup . thanks for the help Cteng. just not what i was always told. but anyways. woulnt that limit my flex?

[MocKKnighT]

yup yup . thanks for the help Cteng. just not what i was always told. but anyways. woulnt that limit my flex?

Nope just use a shackle at the frame end