Sway bar options? Matching components.

MileHighDart said

Does anyone know if the Hellwig bar can be used with the 67-72 lower control arms with factory sway bar tabs? The 67-72 lower arms have the factory sway bar tabs outboard of the strut rod, and even with the bottom of the control arm. From the pic that autoxcuda posted above of the hellwig on a 67-72 k-member it looks like the end of the hellwig bar attaches to a bracket bolted to the shock mount, and the end of the bar is basically right where my factory tabs are. Like they may interfere?

The Hotchkis bar definitely wont work with the factory tabs. It comes with tabs that weld onto the lower arms, inboard of the strut rod, and are even with the top of the arm.

I'm just trying to decide between the two, and it seems silly to weld new tabs onto arms that already have factory tabs.

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The Hellwig 5906 and 5907 front bars do use the factory LCA tabs, although they also come with hardware to attach them if you don’t have the factory LCA tabs. These do limit the front tire width though, I'm not 100% sure what the exact limit is but its around a 245. Larger than that definitely won't work, and I think the 55917 was actually designed because the other bars didn't work with a 245/45/17 on a members car. I'll try and find the thread.

The Hellwig 55917 is the “pro-touring” Hellwig bar for the 67-72 cars, and like the Hotchkis bar it uses different LCA tab locations than stock. It does allow for wider front tires though.

I think with your front tire set up you'll need the Hellwig 55917 or the Hotchkis front bar, which means different than stock LCA tab locations. I would buy a set of non-tabbed LCA's because they're cheap, and sell the LCA's with the stock tabs because those seem to fetch pretty good money. More than enough to cover the installation of new bushings, reinforcing plates and the tabs.