[urq] The usual swaybar bushings question...

[Jim Haseltine]

ISTR that Superflex make poly bushes that fit early bars - but maybe only 
the inner ones not the outers. They make all the bushes for the later bars.

To most of the rest of the English speaking world a sway bar is known as a 
roll bar (or more correctly an anti-roll bar).

Regards,

Jim Haseltine
thethegA sway bar is often knowt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <martin at quattro.ca>
To: "Louis-Alain Richard" <laraa at sympatico.ca>
Cc: <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [urq] The usual swaybar bushings question...


> Louis-Alain,
>
> You could do it.. however, you would need newer control arms.. and with
> that, newer ball joints!! ($$$)
> So.. probably much easier to find a place to duplicate the original
> bushings.. Mike H has a new set that we could use as samples.
>
> Cheers
> Martin Pajak
> www.quattro.ca
>
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> Anybody has installed a newer style (à la 1984 and up) swaybar on an 
>> older
>> style subframe ?
>>
>> If so, then which parts did you use for the inner bushings and end links 
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Louis-Alain
>>
>> Note : I always found strange that the "swaybar" was also known as a
>> "stabilizer bar" in some circles.
>> The explanation lies in the fact that this bar has a dual role on a pure
>> McPherson suspension like we find on a type 43 or 44. The bar controls, 
>> or
>> stabilizes the movement of the lower arms (which are not a-arms, rather
>> i-arms) and also acts side-to-side to control the lean of the car.
>> On our type 85, which has a pseudo-McPherson suspension all around, the
>> swaybar role is only to control lean. It doesn't "stabilize" the lower
>> a-arms. So it is really only a swaybar...
>>
>>
>>
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