Yeah, yeah... dats the ticket.. Kicker Shocks!
As far as I know, Rancho is still making them, the Kickers, (they were in
last years catalog). I haven't seen this years. Those are what I was talking
about. I haven't seen the Rancho version of a true Traction Bar.
Duff
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From TOMMYV@SMTPGATE (Thomas Vacchino) {tommyv@thecia.net}, on 24/02/1999
1:47 PM:
To: DAKOTA-T@SMTPGATE {dakota-truck@buffnet.net}
Ummm, I think you might be thinking of "KICKER SHOCKS" maybe?
Rancho made them many years ago, but I was pretty sure they stopped making
them?
The ones I'm talking about look just like torsion bars that extend from the
rear axle up at an angle till they attached to the frame.
"psychonaut"
brian duffey wrote:
> Actually, they are more like an angled shock from the axle to the frame.
> They work to absorb the torque (or whatever the force is) that causes the
> axle to 'wrap up'. I've looked at them before as an alternative to
traction
> bars, as the Rancho design mounts above the line of the axle & thus would
> not (in theory) eliminate the ground clearence in the way traction bars
do.
> Not a high enough priority for me to have followed thru on it...
>
> Duff
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> >From RICH@SMTPGATE (Wisotzkey, Rich) {Rich.Wisotzkey@gsc.gte.com}, on
> 24/02/1999 10:52 AM:
> To: DAKOTA-T@SMTPGATE ("'dakota-truck@buffnet.net'")
> {dakota-truck@buffnet.net}
>
> Is this the set of bars that attach from the axle to the frame, in
parallel
> with the frame?
> Rich - Ashburn, VA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Vacchino [mailto:tommyv@thecia.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 10:04 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Traction action
>
> Has anybody had any experiance with those RANCHO "truck traction bars"?
> Ya know, the ones that look like torsion bars for the back
> tires..............
> Good, bad........whatever. I need to get better traction on those rear
> tires.
>
> "psychonaut"
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