First off, thanks to my friend Colton for spending about 7 hours with me working on these traction bars for my truck. Colton was the fabricator, welder, and brains behind everything. I was able to get my hands dirty and help with some of the cutting, grinding, and drilling, but no doubt this project belongs to Colton! Thanks again buddy.

Let me give some details on the traction bars. I bought teflon-lined 3/4" heims (28,000 pound rating) for the front and rear. I also bought misalignment spacers, jam nuts, weld-in threaded bungs and 4 stainless steel 1/2" bolts, washers, and nylon-insert lock nuts. The rear parts use left-hand threads heims, bungs, and jam nuts, and the front uses right-hand threaded heims, bungs, and jam nuts. I also bought replacement u-bolt plates so my truck didn't have any down time during the fabrication. We then bought the plate steel and steel bars for the fabrication. Unlike the PRG bars for sale, I used heim joints on the front and rear so the preload can be adjusted, and to allow for greater adjustment and suspension movement. Everything is custom-built from scratch, except the u-bolt plate, which we modified and welded on the reinforced tabs for the heim joints.

By the way, the heim joints we used have the following specs:
Chromoly Teflon Kevlar male rod end.
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Thread Size: 3/4-16
Ball Bore: .750
Ball Width: .875
Centerline Length: 2.875
Thread Length: 1.750
Load Capacity: 28,081 pounds
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I'll display picture of the completed front bracket, rear bracket, and traction bars, however please visit the link below to my photo album to view the fabrication pictures.

Click here to view the entire photo album of the project

Front bracket:


Front bracket installed:


Rear bracket:



Rear bracket installed:


Traction bars from rear:


Traction bars from side:


Painting:


Left bar cleaned and prepped for paint:


Both bars cleaned and prepped for paint:


Passenger side bar painted (first coat):


Driver side bar painted (first coat):


Front bracket painted:


Heim joints awaiting re-installation:

 

looks good

 

Looks good and is a great idea and is simple. only think i see is i would have reinforced the spring plate a little more.

 

We were gonna gusset it, but we didn't think it needed it. We cut a full inch into the spring plate and slid the tabs into it, then welded them up..so it has up and down reinforcement and side to side reinforcement from that too.

 

Nice job!

 

not bad man. You get the heims/tube adapters from ballistic fabrication? Yours look pretty familiar. I used ballistic's stuff for the dune buggy's 4-link/a-arms. Also, I really hope you used a RH on one end and a LH on the other end of the link lol. Nice lookin Titan

 

I got them from QS Components.

And, of course, I used RH on the front and LH on the back! Gotta be able to adjust the preload, that was the whole reason I used dual heims instead of bushings in the rear like the other ones sold for the Titan. The axle side I used left-hand bungs, heims, and jam nuts, and the frame side I used the right-hand bungs. When I adjust the preload, you can actually see it moving the rear up. Once they are done drying from the paint, I'm gonna put them back on, and tinker with the preload again.

 

ah cool. I got my high misalign's from them
I like the pic in your sig

 

Thanks, me too.

It's my favorite pic of my truck..but it was before my bullbar and Hella Black Magic lights. I might have to go out there again sometime and get another pic.

 

Here they are completed, painted, and reinstalled on my truck.