Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
[Re: njmopar]
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12/18/17 01:14 AM
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I own a '69. I believe the bar and brackets were spray painted or dip painted black as a unit, since Mopar offered no replacement brackets or bushings - you had to buy the bar plus brackets plus bushings together as an assembly at the parts counter. All 5 items were a unit at assembly and must have been painted that way. Off course, the paint would have fallen off the bushings with age and use. The 4 bolts were added at assembly and were not painted.
BTW those are original stabilizer links in the photo above.
Photo below shows the yellow paint daub. It looks like spray paint to me.
Canucklehead, is the daub spray paint or brushed? Can you post a photo?
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Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
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12/18/17 02:18 AM
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Sorry for the picture, it's buried in my shed.
Last edited by Canucklehead; 12/18/17 02:19 AM.
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Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
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12/18/17 12:49 PM
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I wonder if the paint daub was a different color for different diameter sway bars,ie: 340 @ 7/8" vs.383 @ 15/16"? Good point as they did the same paint code I.D. on the torsion bars or they would need to measure each one which is too slow of a method for production. A swaybar is another type of torsion bar IMO so it would fit the process for I.D.ing them. Common I.D. method on all production type springs (coil, torsion, even leaf).
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Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
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12/20/17 01:32 AM
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My photo is from a 340.
According to the 1969 Mopar Parts Catalog, there was only one "Sway Bar Shaft" for all A bodies regardless of engine. That's not to say 340 and 383 sway bars were the same factory installed, but it sure looks like it.
Thanks Canucklehead!
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Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
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12/20/17 01:46 PM
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The parts book lists replacement parts, not necessarily what came on the car from the factory. For instance, all, over the counter lower control arms came with sway bar brackets, no matter if the car they were going on had a sway bar or not. The dealer data book calls out .88 sway bars for small block cars and .94 for the 383s.I'm guessing, because of the low volume of big block cars built, and the small number of bars they sold, they just sold the smaller bars for everything.
Interesting and good info, thanks guys. Question: What about the '69 M-Code 440 Dart and Cuda, did they use the 383 big block .94 sway bar too?
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Re: 68 a-body sway bar painted or bare
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