I was just wondering if anyone else has these or if thats even what these are:

 

where in this picture are we supposed to be looking?

 

I thought those were called control arms, but I geuss that is a correct name as well. lol I gots'em too on my '90 2nd gen...

I live in florida were all we ever have is sand, dirt, water, and mud, so I haven't upgraded them...

btw - why are yours perfectly parallel to the ground and mine slope downwards towards the rear axle?

Steve

 

Like someone else said, that is the bottom control arm of your 5-link suspension. All 2nd and 3rd gen 4Rs are a coil suspension.

 

I have those on my rig too but I guess thats what they call em what they said

 

Yup, control arms. They locate the axle front to back and counter axle wrap.

A track bar is also known as the panhard bar on our toyotas. Just different names I think. The panhard bar locates the axle left to right.

Steve

 

just making sure everone had them. I just used to have a lifted chevy and they sold "traction bars" that went in the same place and could look like that, but of course that was on a leaf sprung rear suspension system. Thanks for the replies!

 

Oh, wait, "traction bar", not "track bar". hehe Didn't see that. Gotta start actually reading things instead of skimming.

sorry about that.

I believe the traction bars on the leaf springs are to reduce wheel hop and axle wrap. You always see them on the trucks that are lifted with axle blocks because the blocks put too much torque on the leaves by themselves.

Steve