Well I got my notches in a couple of weeks ago, but did not post them...
Yesterday I started to plan out what I want to do for a pan hard bar. After looking at many different companies and what they offer, I decided to make my own.
I started with a basic idea of the driverside frame bracket and drew it up in Autocad. I printed it out to scale and put it on some cardboard and made a couple of templates.
I taped them together with a spacer and clamped it to the frame. I used my jack stands to hold up a staight edge for reference.
I did not like the height of where the bar would be so I clamped a few strips of angle iron to the bottom of the trailing arms as a reference point and used a 2x4 as a spacer for the bracket. I put the straight edge on top of the angle and used it as reference. I like this location using the top of the straight edge as the center line of the bar. This puts the passanger side mount on the trailing arm.
Thats as far as I got this weekend. I will make a couple of brackets to weld to the trailing arm for that mounting point. I make new taller templates for the driver side bracket and mock it all up again to see if I like it. Since the bracket will be so tall, I might do a cross brace similar to the one in the Hotchkis TVS kit....I don't know...I'll see how it looks mocked up first.