Day 2 parts discussion

[Nova Jed]

OK, so here are some pics of my slapper bars.

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As you can see in the above picture, the leaf is a little bent. It appears that they were mono's that someone added two extra leafs to. The tube measures 1 1/2" square.

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[whitetop]

Yep, somebody made those up in their shop but you can tell they are old-probably late 60's early 70's. . I would blast em and paint em up.

[Nova Jed]

School me on how you know that they are home made? I would never know the difference. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

All that I know is, I have and open rear that would get posi in the garage, so I would guess the rear is either going or those things actually help plant the tires???

[whitetop]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nova Jed</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> School me on how you know that they are home made? I would never know the difference. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]

All that I know is, I have and open rear that would get posi in the garage, so I would guess the rear is either going or those things actually help plant the tires??? </div></div>

I have never seen those in ads or any catalog but that does not mean they were not made by a company. I think the giveaway is the welds in the back are very cobbled/amaturish. Almost looks as if they welded them together piece by piece while on the car. I would bet they were made in someones metal shop class in HS.

The snubbers are probably Lakewood as well as the the spring clamp bolts or possibly Mr. Gasket

[Nova Jed]

Ha! With all the rust on them, I hadn't even noticed the ugly welds. I guess that's why I have never seen this style. They are back woods slappers. Cool! I think I'm just gonna run them like you said. Blast them and paint them. Adds some character. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img]

[Plowman]

Home made for sure. That is like &quot;home cookery&quot;,or home made Day 2 parts. I like it,so COOOL.

[JoeC]

those have a late 1960's look to them
maybe homemade maybe not
there were some small machine shops making traction bars and stick welding them like that in the 1960s

I have seen some home made bars that looked a lot worse with torch-cut plates and no front spring clamp

if you re-use them you may want to use the U-bolts instead of the stock short bolts

[Nova Jed]

Joe, I was considering using U-bolts for sure.

[PxTx]

How about those springs, they getting addressed too? It would be the right time to build your own Super Stock type springs.

[Nova Jed]

Springs are getting changed out too!