sway bar question

[jayfotos]

Welp, I went to AutoZone and bought front and rears.

Rears went on fine, I got the wrong size bushing(larger by a hair), still put'm on.....I can slide the rear sway bar back and forth....is that bad?

Anyone know the diameter of the front and rear sway bars?

The fronts I could'nt put on, the braket is to long on one side.

[xdfarrx]

Monchas sway bars were from Energy out of San Clemente, Ca. All sway bars as I know are hollow. Density of the material, and other properties create greater stiffness... From what I know.
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[jayfotos]

Well, I f'd up....I have to special order the parts.

[Moncha]

Yep... I went through about 10 sets to get the ones that felt right and worked correctly. I chose the grease zerk'd bushings as I was trying to rid the VX of the squeak coming from OEM bushings. I could power wash them out, take them off and clean them to no avail. The squeak always came back. The handling change was an added benefit. I no longer have a source for the bushings so I can't order them.

The part numbers are;

Energy Suspension

9.5156G 3/4" (19mm) Rear

9.5163G 28mm Front

Good luck in the hunt.

[jayfotos]

Pep Boys and AutoZone carry them(not that size), special ordered mine through PepBoys, they were a little cheaper at $18 a set....should have them in 3-5 days.

[Dallas4u]

From what others have said in the past, the Calmini bars don't provide much more stiffness than stock. Some will say they do, some will say they don't. If it is split liek this I personally wouldn't buy them.

Now, I DID buy the bushings from Scott when he made them available and I HAVE noticed a difference here... a bit stiffer for sure.

[jayfotos]

Yea, I'm going that rought...just the bushings.

[psychos2]

you can order the bushing online from pep boys. $18.58 a set. shawn

[SGT.BATGUANO]

Calmini bars come with blue poly bushings.

[jayfotos]

I put the first set I bought on(wrong size, little big) in the rear and I noticed a difference......worth the money!

Crap, should of bought them on line.....that's just me being impatient...again!