Surely some of you guys must have the ladder bars with adjustable heim joints...

 

Well, I got my ladder bars installed at our DTR chapter meeting today... should have some pictures of them up next week.

 

Miek how'd they work on the way home? All I know is that if you snap those things then you definately should not be doing whatever it is that you were doing. I didn't know they made heims that big.

 

Here's a pic of Mikes before install

 

wow what size tubing is that and how long are they?

 

Too bad you young 'uns went to bed so early... when we left Charlie's, I lifted the front wheels off the ground!

 

Nice action shot, Bryan - you caught me and my boy workin' at the same time... and I'm glad you missed the shot of all 5 of us holding onto the bar to get that one stubborn heim turned all the way in!

 

It's triple-butted pipe, 2.375" OD with a wall ranging from .150" up to .335" with 1.125" heim joints on the ends. They are 94" stem to stern and weigh 65# per side complete.

 

So is that HREW, DOM, or Moly tubbing??? Any good pics of the mounts you used??? And What was the cost?

I'm looking to run something similiar, just not as overkill. Running from the tranny brace to the lower shock mounts.

 

I understand that the rear eye mounts to the rear axle......
Does the front eye mount to the front bumper?..........

MAN!!!, those are some loooooooooong bars.

 

Overkill is an understatement...

 

Uh Hum... BrIan. I didn't want a picture of that because I was at the bottom with 4 'behinds' in my face .

I bet those are a set of bars that never, ever, ever breaks/bends!!

 

good looking bars! who makes them and how much? sorry, I cant keep up with all the different kinds

 

Mike makes mike's bars. And toolboxes and trailers, and smokers, and various tools, and air intakes, and exhausts, and gauge mounts, and vises, and drop hitches........

 

I should have some pics posted of the installed bars and mounts by the end of the week. The rear brackets bolt onto the shock mounts - ground clearance is not changed; front brackets bolt onto the frame lateral from the front driveshaft - tranny yoke. Brackets are basically .375" thick, rears are 5" and the fronts about 10" long. Everything was fabricated from steel, since stainless would be prohibitively expensive, but I did stainless steel powder paint them.

All the materials cost about $150 for everything, plus WAY to much time in the shop (ever made your own butted pipe? ) The one day I had to swing the 24# sledge for hours...

I adjusted them longer today just to the point of a little preload, so I'm going to see how it comes out of the hole tomorrow, and watch how it pulls the GN the day after that. I've never really had wheelhop on pavement before - it just spins, probably 'cause the truck is pushing 10K#.

So far, it seems as though the ride has more "road feel" if that makes sense.