Initial impressions of thier functionality?

I was watching Trucks on Sunday where they were putting some on a Gen1 Lightning and mentioned how they served as frame rail connectors to stiffen up the chassis as well. Is this something you guys have noticed with your longbars? I could definately use some chassis stiffining on mine.

 

yea, almost like a subframe connector on the Fbodys.. i like them.. its not that noticable of a ride difference.

 

u say these bars stifen the truck?? well my truck is lowerd..do they really have to be that long?? and that tall?? do they sell them as kits? cus i see that ya custome made them...

 

so any kind of ratio to work with here. if you guys were to guess how long should the bar be on a 96 standard cab shortbed. and just make them parrell to the ground correct? and with this mod should i do the steel bushing on the front of the leaf? where would i find this at any one have a part number

 

I got a set built at an offroad shop here locally and they completely eleminated axle wrap. And cost me less than cal-tracs custom fabbed and all. Mine actually angle downward some from back to front. It feels like my bars "drive" the tires into the pavement harder, which is what I wanted obviously... The whole rear of the truck feels more stable now. Under hard acceleration the truck doesn't feel "scary" anymore loke it used to, it goes in a straight line

 

got any pictures?

 

well im running some goood power to the rear wheels on a set of wrinkle wall slicks on the street. and i have the overload spring removed and no bars of any sort. it squats hard, no wheel hop, just a scary feeling of the rear end twisting haha. i really dont need a bar its the fact i feel im gonna break the u bolts so i want something holding the rear end to the frame