--- im gonnqa build a trac bar. a regular 3 link type one. with little braces. im gonna use 1 heim on the top shackle and some poly bushings for the axle mounts. with like dom and 1 heim and such im thinkin like 25 for the hiem, like 30 for bushings and like 75 for tubing..maybe like give or take 30 buks for extra stuff. so like 150 out the door. eh?... anyone in sac with local prices and such. im thinkin prob summit for hem stuff and blue collar for metals. im just really bored righjt now and need a trac bar so i wanna know how screwed i am. ill prob delete this post when i read it an hour and think how lame this is...blah!:rasta:

$30 heim
$25 bushes
$56 for a 6 metre legth of bar (they wouldnt cut it down):mad3:
$22.75 Bolts (grade 8, nylocks)
rest was tim and parts i had lying around from other things (shackle, sqeuare guard)

so yeah thats my costs!
i think, probly some small things
paint: $2 and other sundries

makes around the $150:smokin: :rasta:

Check my writeup...mine ended up in the $80 range. Use two old poly shock ends for the axle side, a GOOD QA-1 heim on the front side, one old stock shackle for movement, another old shock eye for the frame-mount, and some good DOM tubing. A 18" piece of 2.5-3" flat steel makes the axle mount.

Cheap, easy, and effective.

oh i meant to say aswell, that i heavily copied woody and thanks for the write up!!

it was most helpful, saved me quite a bit of time, trying to desiogn my own and think about it!!

you're a champ!!

:beer: :beer: :beer:
if you come to Oz ill shout you a :beer: or 4 :D

you ppl must be rich to throw away money like that, i have $12 in mine.
of course i used alot of scrap i had lying around:flipoff2:
seriously though, for the axle end on the two mounts i used a lower control arm from the rear of a front wheel drive car. i cut it in half and slipped the cut ends into the tube for the torque bar. this gave me the rubber isolated mounts i needed.
its put together like woodys just thought i'd share my cheap tip on mounts.
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3 johnny joints=$120
1/4" plate & 1.5" ID tube=$20
spool of welding wire=$5
bolts=$5
poly bushings for shackle=$10

so, umm - $160, i guess

i wish i had stuff like that lying aorund!! :(

but then again you'd spend more in other areas, wher ei would not spend as much and id think you were stupid

so we're even!!!:D

but then again you'd spend more in other areas, wher ei would not spend as much and id think you were stupid

HUH?

Got most of my parts from Spidertrax and probably have about $125 or so in it with the DOM tube, 4 rod ends, two homemade shackles and some nuts and bolts, and of course wire for the welder....

Ford radius arm.
piece of 1.125 solid stock
$12 farm 'heim' from the John Deere dealer

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this really works and is easy to do.
:D