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Old 04-27-2006, 09:58 PM
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My set up handles great even with the ladder racks. but I have found with more weight in the bed it grips better. With no weight and on a hard turn it feels that like it wants to fish tail.
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...its a truck... its going to fish tail....seriously though, the sway bars, sweeet sticky tires wide and strong, lowered, panhard, and some distribution should take care of it.
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I wish I could get a better swaybar w/ my 4/6 drop.

If I had it to do over again, I'd do a 2/4 kit, Hotchkiss F&R swaybars, QA1's on all four corners, and some light 18's with a good autocross-style radial.

I'm going to autocross the truck this year and see how it does with the 4/6. I can get a swaybar for the rear, but I don't think that I can get one for the front.
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not to brag but i think my truck handles pretty good,awd, i have hotckis bars, lowered 2/3 with 305 40 22 tires. i know it could use more, like stiffer shocks but im waiting for bilstein to come out with them or to find out the correct valaving to order a custom set, i doubt i could pull a g" but i can take some turns hauling ***!
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AWD and 4WS my truck handles like a sports car
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Some harder or solid suspension and sway bar mounts would help some as well.
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Right now I have Hotchkis springs with Edelbrock shocks and Addco sway bars all put to the ground with some huge 285/65/17 Toyo Peroxies ST's. Next is going to be a panhard bar.. I have put a LOT of research in this area. I figure I am well over .8g's now. But I want to hit the big one-oh g's.

Air Ride Technologies makes a bolt on panhard bar. Does any one have a panhard bar or know of another panhard bar?

After the panhard I want to replace all the rubber with polyurethane. And I mean ALL the rubber. Even body mounts. Yeah that's going to be hard on the kidneys.
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Originally Posted by tdrumm
Hotchkis 2" coils and front sway bar with 2" spindles, 4 link with panhard and coil overs in the back, and the widest low profile tire you can fit on a 18" or 20" rim.
Thats how it's done right there!
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Converting over to a 4-link wont necessarily grantee better handling. There are seven different types of rear suspension. Not one of has more potential then the other. There are lots of cars pulling over a g with leaf springs. And unique to leaf springs. Its the only rear suspension that the thing holding the axle in place is also the thing suspending the weight.

I have thought about a flip kit then using shackles to raise it back up for total of 6 inches in the rear and then lower the front two more inches for a 4/6
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i have been searching for a truck panhard bar for months!, does anyone know if the hotchkis F&R sway bars will fit with their 2" drop spindle and their 4" flip and hanger kit?


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