Found this in my trunk, I need some help identifying it as I don't have a part # on the box, the paper or the bar. Unless I'm blind, which my wife might say is the correct answer!
Help identifying sway bar
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I'm guessing it's a rear sway bar, by the hump in the back
That looks like a rear bar....
dano
Evil Handy Man
Polygraphite bushings means it's a PST bar.
Probably older than the one shown here.
7/8" Rear Sway Bar
Probably older than the one shown here.
7/8" Rear Sway Bar
Duuoooooh! Missed that. Good eye.
Yes sir. The early sway bar is a long limber timber that goes around the front of the K. 73 and up is a shorter bar routed through the middle of the K. It had shorter end links to, attached at a different point on the lower arm. The forward mounted disc brake calipers didn't collide with it.
The typical solution always was to switch the disc brake spindles left and right so the caliper mounts rearward. There is no change is suspension geometry, just longer (f-body) fluid hoses req'd. In recent years some have discovered they could place the spindles/calipers forward like OEM and use very short end link kits loaded below the attach clip instead of above. A bit of ground clearance lost in that. End link aint much, very easily bent.
Since your aftermarket bar has already deleted those low hanging triangular forward mounts, and its end links will likely attach to a clip added at shock bolts, I would recommend the old standard, disc spindle L to R swap.
F-body hoses, make sure the bleeders are at top of caliper, happy moparing.
IIRC (and lately not so much!) aren't there LCAs that do not have the attachments for a sway bar?
Thanks! I've come to expect no less than the best answers possible from this place, everyone here is way to smart!
Maybe mine have mounting holes?
I recognize the drawing of the end link bracket as an ADDCo product. Likely the sway bar is also. Definitely a rear sway bar. That end link bracket drawing was only used on Mopar "A" body rear sway bar kits from ADDCo.
Yes, aftermarket rear sway bar, with front sway bar directions included by mistake.
That's probably what the weld on tabs are in the box for as well.
We're all assuming it's for an A body. Really, at this point the only way to tell is to get out there and see if everything lines up. Not bein smart here, but YOU have the bar and YOU have the vehicle it's goin on. It could have been answered "by now".
End link attach clips on pre 73 lower arms are way out toward lower ball joint. 73 and later have the clip closer to middle of lower arms length. I honestly can't define by that picture.
Most aftermarket add on bars came with a right angle piece to add at lower shock bolt so end user didn't need lower arms with factory clips. Todays aftermarket offers oversized, hollow, etc., that attach same as OEM. In that case you must know what year/type lower arm you have.
Well I was just trying to see if it was for the front or the back first as it doesn't say. I haven't lined anything up on the car yet as I have been busy with dental school, a newborn and yanking drum/Mc/proportioning valve off a junk yard car. I will plan on trying to get it mounted in when I start the rear end and brake swap here in the next couple weeks.
I have 69 control arms on it now and 73+ going in soon
I will try getting it all mounted up in the next couple weeks. Thanks!
Well I was just trying to see if it was for the front or the back first as it doesn't say. I haven't lined anything up on the car yet as I have been busy with dental school, a newborn and yanking drum/Mc/proportioning valve off a junk yard car. I will plan on trying to get it mounted in when I start the rear end and brake swap here in the next couple weeks.
"I" think it's been misrepresented as a front bar, but who knows? I've seen some front bars with that "hump" in them before.
Did not want to bring out these pictures, but here you go.
All are front sway bars for:
A Body
B Body and
E Body
Small swoop in the front to go up and over the radiator support bracket.
The sway bar the OP has pictured is a rear after market sway bar. It goes on with the hump down under the pumpkin, 2 support brackets to the left and right of the pumpkin to the rear end tubes.
Then the bar continues on to a 90° turn to goe under the leaf springs to mount to the leaf in front of the rear end. Aftermarket just like a bar for a chev with the lower control arms and coil springs at the rear end.
Like the Ma Mopar originals for the fronts best.
All are front sway bars for:
A Body
B Body and
E Body
Small swoop in the front to go up and over the radiator support bracket.
The sway bar the OP has pictured is a rear after market sway bar. It goes on with the hump down under the pumpkin, 2 support brackets to the left and right of the pumpkin to the rear end tubes.
Then the bar continues on to a 90° turn to goe under the leaf springs to mount to the leaf in front of the rear end. Aftermarket just like a bar for a chev with the lower control arms and coil springs at the rear end.
Like the Ma Mopar originals for the fronts best.
@Gerorge Jets-
That's awesome! Thanks for the super helpful information and that's an awesome picture! Maybe I'll have to get a front away bar and some new shocks too, because well why not haha. To many projects for one small car!
That's awesome! Thanks for the super helpful information and that's an awesome picture! Maybe I'll have to get a front away bar and some new shocks too, because well why not haha. To many projects for one small car!
Heres pics with measurements from my factory 69 cuda front sway bar.
To me that looks like an old version of one of our rear sway bars. What is the diameter/thickness of the bar?
Thanks
James From
PST
Thanks
James From
PST
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