I am curious about the sheet metal brace on the first gen rear end. This is the one that bolts to the axel housing just right of center with three bolts. My guess is that it provides reinforcing due to the stress from the watts link.
Two questions:

Seeing as I run a panhard bar and not a watts link is this brace of any value.

And second is this brace part of the watts link and there for can be removed as part of the watts link