Re: RE: Lakewood traction bars

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 09 1998 - 02:31:53 EDT


At 06:55 AM 7/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>They help. You might need to put a spacer bar between the rear mount
>and the leaf spring and/or put a spacer between the bar and the
>snubber to get the desired snubber to spring distance, but that's easy
>enough.
>
>QUESTION: Does anyone have an opinion on the best fore/aft position?
> Forward? Aft? Centered under the axle?
>

  
   Ideally, the snubber should be under the eye at the front of the
leaf spring. The Lakewoods are maybe an inch or an inch and a half
too short to get it all the way up there, which is what has kept me
from buying them so far. Has anyone modified theirs to get that
snubber up where it belongs?

                                               -Jon-

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