Sway Bar Bushing Upgrade

Posted by Keegan Chaput On 2008/3/6 0:48:29

After taking a good look at my sway bar I noticed the reason that my car dives so badly when trying to negotiate a turn. Some time in it's past it took a pretty good hit to the passenger side inner bracket which is probably what caused the drivers side of the bar to pop free of it's rubber bushing.

After considering trying to fix the bracket and replace the rubber bushings, I looked into some polyurethane bushings and decided that it would be cheaper and easier to go with some universal polyurethane sway bar bushings instead. And since I don't really car about keeping the car bone stock and original, this is what I came up with on my usual "Tight Wad" budget. I spent a total of $24 for the bushings and used some scrap steel angle iron and square tubing that I had.

After a test drive I'm happy to report that the diving is cured and it felt pretty good considering the fact that I'm sure the shocks are completely dead.

The Pics should show a couple before shots, a mock up shot where the brackets are just tacked together and a final.

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