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    Rate my bar

    Dec 04, 2020 5 minutes
    By MARK ORTIZ

    Q We race off-road trucks that have upwards of 10 inches of wheel travel. We have trouble getting adequate rate out of our anti-roll bars and still having them last. If we make them thin and soft they’ll last, but they don’t do much. If we make them fatter, they get stressed past the yield point and either break or take a permanent twist. Is there anything we can do to improve this situation?

    One idea that has been suggested is to have the drop link act near the middle of a trailing arm. Would that help?

    THE CONSULTANT

    A There are ways to reduce stress levels in either an anti-roll bar or a torsion bar that holds the vehicle up, but what you can actually do on

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