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| | | | Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 | Anyone have a picture of a front sway bar installed on a 49 Pickup that could be posted? Thanks
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A photo of an original front sway bar set up from any panel body 1/2 ton truck from 1947-1951 (early 1951) would be what you are looking for.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 | | | | | | Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 | Denny
Thanks for the pictures. I notice some sway bars attach to front axle and others to the front bottom of the spring u-bolt. Does it depend on the year of the truck or is there a choice. If there is a choice which is the better. Thanks Doug. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 |
Last edited by Achipmunk; 01/31/2013 8:55 AM. Reason: added pic
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 130 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,382 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,382 | Are there any new parts made for the factory sway bars,I have the 47 to 50 style and need the parts to attach it to the frame and springs,I know of a 51 to 55 style that is on a panel in a junkyard but the parts that attach it to the axle are severly rusted. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Jeff, if your putting one on the 37 I think Joe H. did this on his 37 but not sure. It'd be worth asking him though. Or it may have been a rear one?? Just adding to the conversation I guess!! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,382 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 1,382 | I seen some pictures of the installation but recently came up with the factory part. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | So this brings a question to mind, were anti-sway bars avalable
from GM for the art deco's? Or was it a post war option
starting when they released the new Advance Design trucks?
And if so I'd like to see a couple of pictures of one on
a pre-war truck.
Denny G
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Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 245 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 245 | I believe anti-sways were standard on pre-war thru 1946 panel trucks. My '46 looked just like the'47-51 pic.
And Denny, your detail and documentation are mind blowing still.
You've got to write "the BooK". | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Tks so I guess they did have them for the earlier trucks and
from what you say it sounds like they were using the same sort
of link that they used on the early AD's.
I'm to dang disorganized to write a book.
Denny G
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | not sure you really need one on AD. email Patrick's and see what he says
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Maybe I got mixed up here Fred, but we were, talking about anti-sway bars right?.
After I put the one on the front of my '50, 3604 there was a world of difference
in the handling. My "big old wife" was no longer stiff legged and white knuckled when we went around corners or exiting the expressway clover leafs.
For the small cost of the CPP anti-roll bar and the little time it took to install it I'd highly recommend adding one to any AD.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,426 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,426 | Maybe I got mixed up here Fred, but we were, talking about anti-sway bars right?.
After I put the one on the front of my '50, 3604 there was a world of difference
in the handling. My "big old wife" was no longer stiff legged and white knuckled when we went around corners or exiting the expressway clover leafs.
For the small cost of the CPP anti-roll bar and the little time it took to install it I'd highly recommend adding one to any AD.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL Side by side with adding a '62 3sp+od to my '49 AD the front stabilizer bar (I used CPP) the best addition IMHO to one of our old trucks.
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1949 Chevy Half Ton
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