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Traction Bars stop spring wrap up, they do nothing about stopping too much bounce, that's the shocks job.
This depends, I couldn't find the reference in this thread you were.... referencing but it would come to "define bounce".
If you are defining bounce as what happens when your truck goes over those monster speed bumps they just put in at the local home depot then yes. If you define bounce as "wheel hop" which is what happens when you roast your rear tires and your suspension can't handle it then the traction bars will definitely stop that before a shock absorber will being that wheel hop is caused by spring wrap up or the equivalent of what it would be on cars with rear coils (not our trucks!).
I ripped the control arm mounts out of the back of a pontiac astre (equivalent to a vega) when I was a kid. Previous owner planted a 231 V6 out of a regal and didn't finish it. Boy did I "finish" it.
I first tried shocks then helper springs on the shocks. Still bounced like a pony. After having mounts welded back in it still bounced so I bought... traction bars. That worked.
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