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in a chevelle do lift bars work better than bolt in ladder bars. i have the ladder bar set up now but the suspension seems to stiff in the rear and i was wondering if ishould go to lift bars with a adj upper conrtol arm

Originally posted by Superjim427
in a chevelle do lift bars work better than bolt in ladder bars. i have the ladder bar set up now but the suspension seems to stiff in the rear and i was wondering if ishould go to lift bars with a adj upper conrtol arm

the bars shouldnt have anything to do with how stiff the suspension is. springs has the most to do with how stiff a car is and shocks can effect the feel also. you have to make sure the bars let the dif. housen move up and down smooth without binding, but that wouldnt be the bars, but the way they was put on.

Ladder bars have nothing to do with. What kind of rear set up do you have? The coils springs are what you adjust. It all depends on how you have it set up, the travel, etc etc. More detail on what you have may help some of us answer your problem.

bolt in lader bars moroso trick springs with edlbrock shocks i also have hotckins lower arms and adj upper control arms. the car an,t transfering weight .

If you have ladder bars on a Chevelle, did you remove the stock upper and lower control arms - or just add ladder bars?

If you have both, the suspension would be binding up and feel reallly stiff.

Originally posted by Superjim427
bolt in lader bars moroso trick springs with edlbrock shocks i also have hotckins lower arms and adj upper control arms. the car an,t transfering weight .

sounds like you got to much stuff under there. give us some pic or part #s so we can know what you have.

I upgraded the stock arms with hotckins should i take off the lower arm and use lift bars inplace. i dont think i can use just a lader bar in place of the lower, can i if so how where im from im the only one in my age group that has a muscle car. will lift bars work better? i need help

Just a suggestion. When you ask a question like this, you need to fill in some details. We don't even know what year your Chevelle is. You didn't tell us you had both ladder bars and modified stock trailing arms. You didn't tell us what Hotchkis setup you used. That makes it really hard to give you a good answer.

You definitely have too much stuff hooked up. Your suspension is binding. To keep the ladder bars, you would need to disconnect everything else and install a panhard bar or track bar to locate the rear axle left to right. However, I DON'T do that - especiallly with a bolt-on ladder bar. Stick with modifying the trailing arm system.

The GM 4-bar trailing arm suspension can be made to work really well. If you've replaced all 4 of your trailing arms with adjustable Hotchkis parts, you should be able to make it work.

Otherwise, you can install the Lakewood lift bars.

In any case, forget the bolt on ladder bars. Not a good solution.

68 chevelle, so go with the lift bars set the pinion angle keep the adj upper arms bolt on the 28 10.5 slicks and go

this should be the best set up right