Re: 1940 110 Sway bar links?

Posted by Joe Santana On 2013/9/30 18:33:02

I too would like to know if what Roger is making will work for a 40 160.
My sway bar 'disappeared' not long after this photo was taken.

Here is a picture of a 1940 160 sway bar (black) and another Packard sway bar which is rusty and larger. Also a photo of the kit to fix the links.
Here are the instructions from Ron Carpenter

What to do is: THE VERY FIRST THING IS TO PUT ON SME RUBBER THROWAWAY GLOVES
1. Put a squirt of sealer in the bottom of the opening and put the first rubber in the hole.
2. Put some more sealer in the opening.
3. Put the link in the vice and holding the sway bar force it in to the opening and turn the swaybar sideways so that the ends of the sway bar are now flat against the rubber.
4. Put another squirt in the hole on top of the sway bar flat part and install another rubber.
5. Compress the freeze plug against the rubber until it is fully inside the end of the link and then drill a 1/8 hole thru the end of the cap and install the cotter pin to hold it all together.

I use a big clamp that I have modified the end of the clamp so that it goes around the shaft of the link and the flat end of the clamp holds the freeze plug in the end of the link and squeezes the unit together so that I can drill the end of the link where the freeze plug is being held in.

Hope that this helps

RON

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