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Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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| | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 | Today was a good day.
As '60-'62 Chevy and GMC owners know, there are no sway bars available for our trucks.
Well, I've set about to correct that situation!
I had some bars prototyped for production, and they arrived today in all their black powder-coated and gold irridite goodness.
I'll bolt them up next week to make sure they fit properly and do the photography for an instruction sheet.
Front bar is 1.125, rear is 7/8. Rear bar installs with no welding, no drilling and no cheesy brackets on the axle housing, while the front requires only drilling two per side in the bottom of the frame rail to anchor the saddle clamps.
I'm stoked!
-Brad
SOUTHERN FALL GABfestOctober 6 ~ Commerce, Georgia Details here!Never Pee on an Electric Fence. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 14 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 14 | Great news. i am sure this will help a bunch of guys out. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 | The plan is to install the front tomorrow or Friday and drive to a show in North Carolina (and back) as a test to see if everything clears. Then I'll probably install the rear bar in the parking lot for the return trip home.
If all goes well, they'll be for sale next week.
-Brad
SOUTHERN FALL GABfestOctober 6 ~ Commerce, Georgia Details here!Never Pee on an Electric Fence. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 337 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 337 | I'm looking forward to seeing your rear bar installation. Not much is offered for upgrading the 60-62 chassis. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 | ... Not much is offered for upgrading the 60-62 chassis. And that's exactly why I did these. -Brad
Last edited by Brad54; 05/20/2011 5:22 PM.
SOUTHERN FALL GABfestOctober 6 ~ Commerce, Georgia Details here!Never Pee on an Electric Fence. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 564 | Drat. the front bar is two inches too wide, and I need different bolts and bushings on the lower portion of the end link.
Hence the word "Prototype"!
Will see about the rear later this week, but i have to put it on to test fit, and then take it back off because running around with just a rear sway bar will make handing really sketchy.
-Brad
Last edited by Brad54; 05/22/2011 6:18 AM.
SOUTHERN FALL GABfestOctober 6 ~ Commerce, Georgia Details here!Never Pee on an Electric Fence. | | |
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