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Message: [QUOTE="Mhatlen, post: 1340310, member: 14173"] Well you did some reading.....as far as your question goes my answer is going to be maybe. The reason I say maybe is I'm sure you read Nicks thread ' nighthawk' where he also has traction bars and says he made a front radius arm brace. I have no idea what he made for the front of his truck and he won't put up any pictures of it on his thread. Way I see it is he either has something that was half assed on between the radius arm hangers and doesn't want anyone to see it or he has it tied back completely into the frame. I just have no idea of what he did for his front end and I'm not asking him again to post up pictures of what he did. So you can certainly try tying your radius arm brackets together and see how it works for your truck in conjunction with your traction bars. What I can assure you of is your truck will absolutely drive and handle better with the radius arm hangers tied together. It will have the same affects as the guys get when they run the solid bar across the engine in cars tying the top shock towers together. Mustangs, Camaro's, etc etc. I see traction bars a bit like a load binder on a chassis where it pulls things together within reason. So if you can settle down the frame shudder in the radius arm hangers the traction bars will do the rest. I say give it a try, best way to do that is between the hangers with plates and a piece of 3" channel or some square tubing. There are 2 bolt hole locations to secure it as long as it's similar to the 2005 up hangers. Some have tied it together from behind the hangers but it's not my preferred spot because there is only one bolt per side and it can still 'rack' so to speak. [/QUOTE]