[RichSchmidt]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kim_Howie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Marlin,
Set your ladder bars on the same pivot as your rear spring front eyelet. Make your eyelet bolt longer to bolt your bars on and they will be on the same pivot. They will work fine. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img] </div></div>

Not really. The problem is that on a leaf spring car,as the rear axle moves up and down it also moves foward and backward because the spring has an arch to it. If you have a car with high arch springs,and the wheel is centered in the wheel opening front to back and you push down on the back of the car,the rear axle will move rearward and the tire will move toward the back of the wheel opening. Thats why the rear of the spring must have a shackle. The only way to run the ladder bars with leaf springs is either with a slider mounting system between the rear axle housing and spring,(which can only be done with real racing ladder bars),or with some type of sliding rod end at the front mounting location of the ladder bar. It would need to be made to be something like the sliding rod end that is usually fitted into the front of a wishbone axle locator.

Those hot rod ladder bars are the worst cazr part ever designed. They destroy every car that you put them on and do nothing to make the car faster or safer. If ever there was a speed part that deserves it's own class action lawsuit,it is those pieces of crap. I wonder how many people were killed over the years by fast musclecars skipping across the road and spinning out of control because somebody thought they were improving on their car by using those bars when in fact they were making it extremly unsafe.