Is there any way to locate swaybar tabs on LCAs while they are off the car? Lots easier to weld them on while standing up rather than laying on the garage floor...
Swaybar Tab location
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I’m looking at a modest priced Hellwig
Got to know the part number of the bar you’re looking at and the year of your K member. Hellwig makes three different front bars for the 67-72 K and one for the 73+ K. Two of the 67-72 bars use the stock tab locations (one hollow bar, one solid) and the other uses a custom location to allow for wider front tires. The 73+ bar uses the stock 73+ tab location.
Oh ok. That one uses the stock 73-76 LCA tab locations. I can pull some measurements off my stock LCA’s tomorrow for you.
Dusterdenovo
Contentedly Old School
'73 Duster. These tabs came with my Hotchkis Sway Bar, and this is the stock location (more or less).
Just weld them on in the center, like in the picture.
It never was rocket science anyway, from back in the day, when the stoned, or drunk assembly line worker was doing it.
OOPS, too late to the party.
Somebody beat me to it, while i was looking up my picture files.
It never was rocket science anyway, from back in the day, when the stoned, or drunk assembly line worker was doing it.
OOPS, too late to the party.
Somebody beat me to it, while i was looking up my picture files.
Ok, here you go. And like hemi71x said, it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, there's a whole lot of bushing involved. Hope this helps!
This is a '73+ LCA, stock sway bar tab location
6 5/8" from the tab to the far edge near the LCA pin
4 1/2" from the front of the tab to the edge of the LCA through the rivet
Center of of the hole is about a 1/2" above the top edge of the LCA
Rear "leg" of the tab is roughly inline with the center of the slot for the bump stop. The line is approximately perpendicular to the slot, it's at an angle because of the perspective of the picture
This is a '73+ LCA, stock sway bar tab location
6 5/8" from the tab to the far edge near the LCA pin
4 1/2" from the front of the tab to the edge of the LCA through the rivet
Center of of the hole is about a 1/2" above the top edge of the LCA
Rear "leg" of the tab is roughly inline with the center of the slot for the bump stop. The line is approximately perpendicular to the slot, it's at an angle because of the perspective of the picture
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Correct. Although all the 73+ sway bars use the stock tab locations, even the aftermarket ones. The 67-72 aftermarket bars are the ones that have different locations for tire clearance.
I put a hellwig tube bar on my duster like 10 years ago that I swear used the shock bolts to mount the tabs. I don't remember welding tabs on for it. Looking at how far off those would be from the stock tabs I wonder if it's a different bar.
I take that back I went out and looked it's a bolt on tab if you don't have the stock tabs.
I take that back I went out and looked it's a bolt on tab if you don't have the stock tabs.
Can you snap a pic of that bolt on tab please?
Shmaako
Well-Known Member
I have a 67 barracuda with a 67 k member and am thinking of using factory tabbed '73 lower control arms for an aftermarket sway bar...is that a problem?
I haven't ordered the sway bar yet...perhaps I should just use my 67 lca's and weld on tabs...?
I haven't ordered the sway bar yet...perhaps I should just use my 67 lca's and weld on tabs...?
I would just use your LCA’s and weld on tabs. You can’t use a ‘73+ sway bar with a ‘67 K frame, and a stock sway bar for a ‘67-72 K frame won’t work with the 73+ sway bar tab locations. Some of the aftermarket 67-72 sway bars don’t use the factory tab locations, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the 73+ locations would work either.
Not only that, but the stock LCA’s with sway bar tabs can be kinda expensive. So if you can weld adding the tabs would be a lot cheaper.
67autocross
A new iron curtain drawn across the 49th parallel
You could get a bar kit from PST for a couple hundred US, they give a discount to for a bodies only members. I would not bother to change the lower control arms... just bolt or weld the tabs on that come with the kit. The way the weather is in Winnipeg right now you still have a few months until summer to get it done....
That doesn't work. Your pre 73 K member is closed cavity. The stabilizer bar routed around the front outside of it. Those OEM end link tabs were farther forward, closer to lower ball joint. Longer end link kits too.
Since the later model K was open cavity for stabilizer bar to route though the middle of it, the OEM end link tabs on those arms were closer to center of the arm and used shorter end links. So bottom line... No need to pay a higher price for late model lower arms that have the OEM end link tabs. Just ad tabs to the lower arms you have.
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