Sway bar ?
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Sway bar ?
I just bought a WS6 sway bar it is a 36mm but a friend of mine has a Iroc with the 1LE it is also a 36mm I was told they are the same but the one I just got is different
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Re: Sway bar ?
How is it different? Any pics?
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Re: Sway bar ?
All OE 36mm front sway bars are the same.
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Re: Sway bar ?
¿¿..... and ..... ??
This matters because .... ??
What are you REALLY trying to ask? What is the purpose toward which you would put this information to use? Perhaps if we knew how or why it was important to you we could tell you something .... significant. Or, maybe not. It all depends.
If I was the guessing kind, I'd guess that the bowed ones were designed to fit some feature on some cars in some years that didn't exist on other cars or in other years, that the straight ones interfered with.
This matters because .... ??
What are you REALLY trying to ask? What is the purpose toward which you would put this information to use? Perhaps if we knew how or why it was important to you we could tell you something .... significant. Or, maybe not. It all depends.
If I was the guessing kind, I'd guess that the bowed ones were designed to fit some feature on some cars in some years that didn't exist on other cars or in other years, that the straight ones interfered with.
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Re: Sway bar ?
¿¿..... and ..... ??
This matters because .... ??
What are you REALLY trying to ask? What is the purpose toward which you would put this information to use? Perhaps if we knew how or why it was important to you we could tell you something .... significant. Or, maybe not. It all depends.
If I was the guessing kind, I'd guess that the bowed ones were designed to fit some feature on some cars in some years that didn't exist on other cars or in other years, that the straight ones interfered with.
This matters because .... ??
What are you REALLY trying to ask? What is the purpose toward which you would put this information to use? Perhaps if we knew how or why it was important to you we could tell you something .... significant. Or, maybe not. It all depends.
If I was the guessing kind, I'd guess that the bowed ones were designed to fit some feature on some cars in some years that didn't exist on other cars or in other years, that the straight ones interfered with.
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Re: Sway bar ?
Well that's easy enough then... there shouldn't be any problems, but if the 2 cars happen to differ in whatever the particular feature is, there could be.
The main thing that might cause trouble is probably the fan shroud or mounting. You can compare the volume that the bar has to go through before you put it on, just sort of eyeball in between the bushings, and make sure the bend doesn't interfere with that, and be pretty sure nothing else will either.
The main thing that might cause trouble is probably the fan shroud or mounting. You can compare the volume that the bar has to go through before you put it on, just sort of eyeball in between the bushings, and make sure the bend doesn't interfere with that, and be pretty sure nothing else will either.
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Re: Sway bar ?
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Re: Sway bar ?
Mine is bowed. Several sets that I've sold were bowed. Since I've never read anything on the web or in my Parts & Illustration Cat. about differences in the OE 36 mm bar, I'd be very interested to learn otherwise. BTW, the single GM part number for the 36 mm is 14094344.
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Re: Sway bar ?
Mine is bowed btw. Looks just like yours.
Didn't even know they made a straight one, but it makes no difference either way. If the endlink mounting holes and the bushing surfaces were the same distance apart I wouldn't even bother thinking about it.
Didn't even know they made a straight one, but it makes no difference either way. If the endlink mounting holes and the bushing surfaces were the same distance apart I wouldn't even bother thinking about it.
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