track bar check.

[IDIoit]

check it.
frequently.
I need to stop beating my truck
but its a ******* truck. and I built it so I can only blame myself!

me and the wife took a weekend off and went to the high desert, through all the beautiful backroads, the truck got some good scratches. and its been downhill from there.
but seriously,
can I get an equipment check?

track bar bushings were done.
which a near miss with a fella trying to get stuffed by slamming their brakes on the on ramp of clear traffic.
developed a busted tie rod on the pitman.
had to cut the threads off and add some new ones on.

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[subway]

nice, i should pull my tack bar out and do that. with my worn bushings every once in a while i get some wheeble whobble out of it.

that drag link would have me crapping my pants though, its sort of important to keeping your truck pointed in the right direction!

 

[IDIoit]

oah it did. so bad that I had pulled over and called AAA!

 

[Black dawg]

Hard to tell for sure in the pictures, but did that fail where you welded it, or was that the end that was already on there? Looks like chevy stuff?

Yes on the trac bar bushings, the poly ones usually only last a year on my truck. Next go is bar that has pressed in rubber bushings.

 

[IDIoit]

I couldn't upload a video, but no neither the weld or the threads failed, the rod end did. creating a 1/2 turn play.
but due to the track bar being skrewed, it allowed the draglink to take the brunt of it, and I couldn't get the TRE out.
you can see the pipe wrench marks where I tried.
I had to get another weld in bung and replace it on the drag link.

 

[Macrobb]

OK... ELI5: What's a track bar and how is it applicable here?

Googling, I come across a bar that ties coil sprung axles in the center, so they don't go sideways out from under the truck. But you have leaf springs?
Don't the leaf springs provide lateral tracking?

Admittedly, I don't have anything handy with a solid front axle to look at, but none of my (leaf sprung) trucks have anything of the sort.

 

[chillman88]

Track bar is the same as a panhard bar. Leaf spring axles will shimmy side to side too, not just coil sprung. Yes the leaf springs do provide more stability than the coils but they still benefit greatly from a track bar.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

Our "IFS" front ends don't need a track bar/panhard bar. They are anchored in the middle by the pivot bolts and won't move from side to side unless there's something seriously wrong.

 

[IDIoit]

a D60 without a track bar will also death wobble.

 

[IDIBRONCO]

a D60 without a track bar will also death wobble.

I hadn't thought of that, but I bet it would.

 

[Black dawg]

track bar is there because of the way the drag link is run.