I've got the Lakewoods on my 95 spaced .5". With street tires, they do help
some with traction. The main thing they accomplished for me was the complete
elimination of potentially destructive wheelhop. My truck still 60fts about the
same as before. Anybody feeling generous can send me some 28" Hoosiers or MTs
;-)
Andre Mauboussin
95 14.7@94.5mph
Mike Miller wrote:
> OK, I went out and got some lakewood universal traction bars, and here's my
> installation notes.
>
> Try to tighten up the outer u-bolt nuts first, since they will interfere
> with the wheels first. Keep in mind, I'm suggesting biasing you tightening
> sequence to the outside. If you tighten the outers up fully first, you'll
> get the bars on crooked, and that's no good.
>
> The bars will have to go as far forward as possible. But you can't put them
> right up against the spring mount, because then you cant get the wrench
> off. Just get them as far forward as possible while still being able to get
> the wrench off.
>
> Put the snubber in the forward-most hole before you put the bars on the
> truck. Its just easier that way.
>
> Even so, the snubber will hit the springs just aft of the eye. We would
> like to have the snubber hit on the eye but it just doesn't work out that
> way.
>
> On my RC R/T, the snubber ended up 1 and 1/2 inches below the spring.
> Lakewood recommends .5 inches. To achieve this, I calculated that I'll need
> about a 13/16 spacer between the rear traction bar mount and the leaf
> spring. I'll let you all know how it works when I get this accomplished.
>
> As it is (with the 1-1/2 inch space between the snubber and the spring),
> the traction bars don't appear to make any difference. The truck burns just
> as much rubber from a stop on normal pavement. I won't be able to go to the
> track till mid august (I'm off to the Canadian rockies for a huge fishing
> trip). But without the traction bars, I got 60' times of about 2.3 seconds.
> My Throttle body mods that I mentioned will be postponed even further. I'll
> get the snubber-to-spring distance to .5 inches and then tell y'all how it
> worked.
>
> As always, stay tuned.
>
> -Mike Miller
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