Torsion bar vs Coil spring preference

[wlfpck]

Was looking at the long travel kits and realized something (maybe I missed something).

It seems like the big names seem to prefer the torsion bar 2wd rangers over the coil spring 2wd rangers. Is there a reason for this?

vegasdezertfab, truetraveldynamics, etc. all make kits only for the torsion bar 2wd ranger. It appears only camburg makes one for the coil spring. Is there anything wrong with the coil spring ranger?

Also doesn't seem like there is a coilover conversion for the coil spring set up either, versus the kit that the guy on RF makes.

Just asking out of curiosity sake. Seems like of weird. I'd figure it would have been the other way around with the coil spring rangers being more popular.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Torsion bar is the same stuff as 4wd, that may play a roll.

 

[sgtsandman]

There isn't anything wrong with coil springs. It might be an engineering limitation thing. There is more room to work with a torsion bar system than a coil spring one. Now, part of it could be that most of the demand is from owners with torsion bar systems as well. Companies will only keep or develop products where they think there is a demand or there definitely is one.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

There isn't anything wrong with coil springs. It might be an engineering limitation thing. There is more room to work with a torsion bar system than a coil spring one. Now, part of it could be that most of the demand is from owners with torsion bar systems as well. Companies will only keep or develop products where they think there is a demand or there definitely is one.

There is probably more demand to lift a 4wd than a 2wd too.

 

[sgtsandman]

There is that. Probably more people want to slam a RWD than a 4X4 as well.

 

[JOLENE_THE_RANGER]

theres nothing wrong with the coil spring rangers. neither long travel kit (coil spring or torsion bar) will keep its respective spring set up, they will both be switched to coilover with a new fabricated shock mount. that being said the torsion bar frame is much easier to switch to Long travel because with the coil frame you have to cut the coil pocket out and re plate the giant hole you just made in the frame to fit a coilover where as a torsion bar frame just has a little shock mount that needs to be removed and replaced with a fabricated shock tower.
some say the geometry of the factory lower pivot points and steering on the torsion bar frame is better too... it has nothing to do with torsion bar frames being associated with 4wd because quite honestly 4wd isnt ideal for a long travel set up.