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Moving forward I decided to mount the front and rear sway bar prior to running my brake and fuel lines. I would rather bend the lines up once than have to do it again to work around something.

I started with the rear, as with anything that's modified you need to modify everything else. As my axel is now mounted above the springs the sway bar must go under, on the first mock up I could tell it was hanging to low. I shortened the "locks" as their called in the instructions by 3/8 of an inch, moving the mount closer to the axel tubes. I found that moving the u bolts forward to about 30 degrees get me some extra height and didn't hamper clearance. I centered the sway bar and placed the end links close to where they should be, being I am working with a lowered chassis I needed to shorten the end links to fit. I clamped the mounts in place and took some measurements, I cut an inch out of the sleeve and adjusting the mount position helped to square everything up. I marked and drilled the holes for the end link mounts and bolted those in place. I will need to get shorter bolts for the links before I do the final assemble.

The one issue that popped up is the position of the lower shock mount, using a sway bar with traction bars makes for some head scratching. I almost figured this was going to be a problem, I'll need to address this soon. Progress is progress.