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| | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 21 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 21 | Anyone know where you can buy the bushings to rebuild an original sway bar on a 1950 Suburban? I used to see the parts for sale but now only see whole units for sale. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Sway Bar bushings (why aren't they called anti-sway bars? - just wondering) | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 188 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 188 | Look at this item: http: //www.chevsofthe40s.com/search.lasso?search=sway+bar
Jim Carter has it also. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Now Tim, I always looked at them as stabilizer bars.
Merriam says;
sway
Pronunciation: \ˈswā\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English sweigh, from sweyen
Date: 14th century
1: the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed: an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion
Sway never seemed to fit.
DG
Last edited by Denny Graham; 01/20/2010 10:37 PM.
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
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So Denny, the bar is not producing the sway, it trying to minimize the sway, an anti-sway bar, I'd say.
I have read long-winded arguments regarding the difference between (anti-)sway bars, front end stabilizers, and steering stabilizers. I find those arguments as fruitless as arguing the right shade of 216/235 engine gray (blue-gray; gray-blue; etc).
Chevrolet called it a Stabilizer (used on both models of Suburbans) in the 1954 Truck Data Book - that is good enough for me (then I do not have to worry about the foolishness of buying something for a sway bar).
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Now just who in the world would argue about the right shade of gray for an engine??
Denny G
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Just about all of us, every so often.  | | |
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