leaf spring sliders

When I was dirt trackin a LONG time ago, we got the genius idea of drilling the plug welds out of the rear end center section of the 70's Monte Carlo we were running at the time. That allowed the axle tubes to rotate giving basically the same effect as sliders.......as they were outlawed in the class we were in. We ran a panhard bar to keep side to side motion out so the tubes wouldn't come out. That car won so consistently, that we were protested and torn down almost every win. The tubes leaked a little bit, but not much at all. We found that after a wreck where we had to replace the rear end that drilling only one side achieved the same thing, so we did that instead. It also allowed us to negate the panhard bar, which they had also outlawed thinking that was how we won so much. They never figured it out. lol