Originally Posted By madscientist
Originally Posted By Cab_Burge
Originally Posted By skrews
Anyone ever ran ladder bars with leaf springs by putting sliders on the front of the leaf spring as opposed to running a housing floater kit?
Yes, a friend of mine 1970 Duster had that set up, ladder bars and a slider on them. He won the NHRA division 7 Pro bracket championship in 1984 up
I had a 1968 Baracuda with a floater on it with ladder bars, both worked well. My last street and strip car, 1971 Duster that ran 10.00 on pump gas, had double adjustable coil overs with ladder bars and a diagonal link, that was the quickest and best working rear end set up I've own and built up


How does the slider allow the rear axle to move? The ladder bar pivot and front spring eye are not the same distance from the axle centerline?

The front of the spring and the back of the spring would be able to float.
I'm leaning toward just running the back of a mono leaf as the front half of the spring would be worthless anyway. I believe Monte Smith mentioned running cars this way.