I been pondering a idea for some time on how to make a bolt in ladder bar for my T bird.
This is a short Ladder Bar that bolts were stock lower arm goes with new bracket welds to rearend but still leaves stock lower mount the same so i can go back to stock lower arm with no probs.
Spring is in the way but a bolt on coil over spring to rear of rear end and have no probs then with that.
Now to keep rear end centered i will still use upper arms in stock location and if bind becomes to much of a prob i will try making a trinagle link with a slider that bolts into stock upper boxs and rear end brackets.
Worse thing that can happens is i wast 50 bucks in mettle and some time.
the only problem is see is the possibility of the pinion angle changing drastically as the suspension compresses because the ladder bars would be rather short
pinion angle would be ajustable.
I did this on my 82Z28 i had made them go to stock mounting point on the frame.
I will do this with 85T just to try it my 87 will get full ladder bar setup.
did you keep the torque arm on the 3rd gen?
Nope the main resion i did the ladderbars was to get rid of that dam torque arm.
I had the Z28 over years ago when there was nothing out to ubgrade the susp.
I had broke 4 10bolt rear ends and broke 2 torque arm's one was at the mount near the tranny i bent the bar and had it stab the ground so made it stronger there only to have it crack and then fail at the 2 bolts that bolt it to the rearend. So 9inch with ladder bar i went i did keep stock style pan bar at the back and used stock setup for springs and shocks. Just made brackets the same on the 9inch.
it lasted 5 years till crashed car at the track and rear end and susp endup in a buddys iroc and is still working fine to this date.