[AMC-List] 62 classic and front swaybar bolting

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you thru bolt the sway bar like this, another way to do it so you don't crush or distort the frame rails is to drill the hole you need for the bolt in the bottom and thru to the top. Then take a bit as large as the outside of a piece of pipe, your choice on size depending on what will fit over the bolt! Drill this size in the top of the rail only.
 Drop the pipe in the rail and mark it flush with the top of the rail. Then cut it off.
Use the bolt and a washer under the head of the bolt then the pipe.
Like so,
   T    Bolt
   --     Washer
   II   pipe
   --  Lower frame rail
   -- swaybar bracket
   # Nut

This diagram sucks, but it's all I could get to work out with this web based email!
The idea is your creating a shouldered bolt that only applies force/clamping on the lower frame rail and none on the upper. If you use a large enough fender washer at the top spot you will not see the larger hole around the pipe.
 This method will allow you to tighten the sway bar bracket fully and not crush the frame rail.
  

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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> Dave, you'll have to modify something no matter what. I'd suggest using
> a Concord front bar, and maybe an Eagle rear. The four bar rear
> suspension probably doesn't need a rear sway bar though. Your car rolls
> so much because of the soft springs more than anything. Once the
> suspension is stiffened up it will track better and roll less. 
> 
> I have a Concord front bar on my 63. I had to bend the ends a little to
> fit the stock sway bar locations on the lower arms. Bending a sway bar
> is okay as long as you DO NOT use heat. The ends are bent out at an
> angle on the Concord, I had to straighten them in a hydraulic press. To
> mount it I drilled down all the way through the front rails and used
> long bolts. You could use self tapping screws and just go through the
> lower part of the rail, but I didn't because that could pull out. 
> 
> Only the V-8 58-66 cars came with a sway bar, and it mounts to the rear.
> It won't work with a six -- I tried. The bar is made to go between the
> oil pan and bell on the V-8, and the six is at a different location. 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:23 PM
> From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> what car would i look to for getting an anti sway bar front and rear?  
>    
>   dave stohler
>   camp taji iraq
> 
> 
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