General Tech Anti-Wrap bar for a 2000 Dodge Ram 1500

[Justin Lake]

Anti-Wrap bar build

So I recently bought a 2000 Dodge Ram 1500 primarily for a hunting/work truck and I discovered how bad it "hopped" in the snow (the axle-wrap was terrible). I only paid 500 bucks for the truck so I had a little money to drop into it. The first order of business was an Anti-Wrap bar. Here are some pictures of my project. If you click on the picture it will view bigger.

With a steady hand I cut my axle brackets out with the plasma cutter


Axle bracket with bushings


Axle bracket tabs welded to the axle


This was the start of my cross-member that the anti-wrap bar would connect to


mounted the cross-member to the frame and everything fit perfect but I noticed I would have to re-rout my exhaust. You'll see a pic of that further down


I also had to extend the cross-member about 4 inches so the anti-wrap bar would pivot on the same axis as my drive-shaft


Built the tabs for the cross-member


This is the shackle going onto the cross-member


Cross-member all finished

 

[Justin Lake]

I couldn't really fit some "gradual" exhaust elbows so I had to make my own.


I finally got to the fun part





Thanks for viewing. If you have any questions or comments feel free.

 

[I Lean]

Looks good, and stout! I do wonder though, why did you care whether the ladder bar pivoted at the same axis as the driveshaft or not?

 

[Justin Lake]

Well maybe I put too much thought into it but the reason I did that was I thought the pinion would always stay in line with the drive shaft as the axle traveled up and down. I guess that might have more to do with the length of the bar than anything. The shorter the bar the more the pinion will rotate up and down when the axle travels. I don't know I probably didn't need to but that is just what I thought about and went with.