Re: 1940 110 Sway bar links?

Posted by 40clubcoupe On 2013/9/30 13:38:00

I am interested in this upgrade. I have an early 40 110 that has stabilizer links that actually look like links...a tall sausage standing up holding the horizontal stabilizer bar. The bar inserts into the top of the link similar to the photo shown, with no access hole. What is in the lower body of the link, I don't know. My problem is not that the rubber has deteriorated, but that Packard used a small undersized mounting stud on the bottom of the link. I suppose the rubber bushings at the mounting stud collects road water and rusts the stud. My mounting studs wrung off the second I put the wrench on them. I thought about welding new studs onto the links, but I still might have the rubber failure shortly anyway.
Would you be using my horizontal bar, with new links ?