Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
[Re: Kern Dog]
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07/02/22 10:29 AM
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what are you trying to accomplish ? what vehicle are you working on ? i'm sure there are budget options out there, but you need to establish a starting point what you are working with. ![beer beer](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/beer.gif)
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Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
[Re: hemienvy]
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07/03/22 03:26 PM
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It will still work, but it's effective rate will be severely reduced and its mean time to failure will rise. Drilling holes and bolting would reduce rate even more and present additional stress failure points. Sway bars work on the elastic modulus principles that allow it to retain its original shape despite being torqued out of shape. The modulus varies depending on the thickness of a solid bar, or if it is hollow, the wall thickness. By cutting a solid bar and welding a tube over it, you have effectively reduced the sway bars resistance to the wall thickness of that tube and now concentrated all those stresses to the cut point of the original bar. It will work, at a reduced rate, for some period of time. Depending on your driving style, It will probably eventually fail at those cut points. You can get straight bars/tubes, with splines on the end and then use custom arms to interface with the splines and the control arms. Speedway Engineering is one company that offers these. http://1speedway.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=76
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Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
[Re: hemienvy]
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07/03/22 06:14 PM
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Rather than cutting and welding, I think I'd look around and see if there's an existing sway bar with the shape and specs that you need for any brand or type of vehicle.
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Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
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07/03/22 11:56 PM
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Rather than cutting and welding, I think I'd look around and see if there's an existing sway bar with the shape and specs that you need for any brand or type of vehicle. FACT. I took a sway bar from a 73-87 Chevy C-30 2wd truck and modified it to fit the front of my '70 Charger. The same car has a rear bar from an '83 Imperial. I took a sway bar from a Chevy Tahoe and fitted it to the rear of my 2007 Ram 1500. Be creative.
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Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
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07/04/22 09:00 AM
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KernDog, I would not be opposed to that at all. I've found it's just very hard to find sway bar dimensions on the internet. Did you simply find pictures ? How many sway bars did you go through before success ? Also, what mods did you do, bending ? Get a tape measure, go to the junkyard, measure till you find something that will fit. That's what I did to put a swaybar on my 64 300 back in the early 90's, when the answer to all questions, aka the internet, didn't exist. Still works today.
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Re: How to shorten a sway bar...maybe
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07/05/22 12:07 PM
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KernDog, I would not be opposed to that at all. I've found it's just very hard to find sway bar dimensions on the internet. Did you simply find pictures ? How many sway bars did you go through before success ? Also, what mods did you do, bending ? Get a tape measure, go to the junkyard, measure till you find something that will fit. That's what I did to put a swaybar on my 64 300 back in the early 90's, when the answer to all questions, aka the internet, didn't exist. Still works today. That is what I did. I walked the yard and looked at different shapes and styles. The Chevy truck bar was an easy one. I had an '84 Chevy truck when I bought my '70 Charger. I noticed that the shapes were similar. I bought one at the Junkyard and simply shortened each end and drilled holes in the ends to attach the end links.
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