help addco sway bar

[macrossmerrell]

Does anyone have any good pix of the Addco sway bar installed on their Gen 1?

I'd like to compare to my own.

Thanks so much!

Merrell

[blackbombshell95]

Because there is nothing to hold the bar in place. Look at the stock bar, it has stops on each end to prevent it from going side to side.

When the bar flexes hard from you driving hard, it wants to go to 1 side because it is being shoved to 1 side, along with being shoved up and down. With the addco bar, the only thing to keep it from going side to side is the center hangers. They hold decent, but not good enough since there is barely any friction holding those 22mm bushings onto the bar on the hangers. The insides of the bushing are fuzzy, it's meant to slide all over whatever it holds without needing any grease. It works for whatever application those bushings were made for, but they don't work all that great on a swaybar like this.

With the hangers bolted to the bar all the way, and those 22mm bushings on, I can slide the entire hanger all the way around the bar. It's very hard to pull to the side, but the flex on the bar from the car is much stronger than I am.

Something must be wrong. Something has to be wrong. Try tightening up the center links and then see. Because i'll tell you again, i've jack my car up every week and I check the swaybar and it never repositions. And we've got the same swaybar mods. Well you have the revised bar and I have the old bar. (Old bar is longer). And again I can't budge teh bar even 1mm. So I don't know what is going on. Because any little movement isn't doing you any good.

[PCGUY112887]

The center links are as tight as they can be without breaking something. There isn't much else I can do, it's already installed with the washers.

[blackbombshell95]

Do u have a pic of the washers?

[PCGUY112887]

ya http://60degreev6.com/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=14

[blackbombshell95]

Is that an addco bar with washers welded on??? I tried to do that but I was recommended to not to. Because heating up the bar will weaken it. I opted to do that back in the day before we know about ES bushings

[PCGUY112887]

Yes that is what it is. Seems strong enough, hopefully it will be OK.

[19Cutlass94]

Does anyone have any good pix of the Addco sway bar installed on their Gen 1?

I'd like to compare to my own.

Thanks so much!

Merrell

I have some pictures in my car domain, page 7


On the addco bar, when i installed mine the end links were so damn tight it was almost crushing the poly bushings it was being held in so tight. It doesnt really seem like the center hangers hold it ( side to side movement ) all to good.

[dohcfiend]

i took a little haitus but i am back again. i finished those solid mounts btw. i do not anticipate the bar moving at all.

i'll get a pic later.

[d.o.h.c]

Its cool cause I was the one who got the revised bar made.

[AWeb80]

I got the revised bar too....want pics of install....here ya go

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v639/AWeb/Revised%20ADDCO%20Bar/http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v639/AWeb/Revised%20ADDCO%20Bar/

old bar....w/ stops i made

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v639/AWeb/sway%20bar%20brackets/

[dohcfiend]

alrighty, here it is.

what i done was fairly simple. i took the stock metal mount to a machine shop, they welded a piece of sqaure steel to it and then welded flat steel plate with 2 holes in it to the square steel.

i ended up using the flat plates provided with the sway bar. looks like the hardware was good for something.

not the prettiest granted but solid i assure you.

[blackbombshell95]

That looks cool

[AWeb80]

nice.