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Re: [TR] advice on installing a front swaybar on TR4A

To: "Anthony Rhodes" <spamiam@comcast.net>,
Subject: Re: [TR] advice on installing a front swaybar on TR4A
From: Bill & Skip Pugh <anabil007@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 12:32:07 -0700
I don't suppose it would be possible to "thread" the bar through the 
tow loops ... ??

>With the tow loops on the front of the stock TR4A radiator shield, I 
>wonder where the bar would fit on a 4A.  When you position the bar 
>perfectly horizontal, it wants to sit where the loops are!  So, 
>either the loops have to be cut off, or the bar is in FRONT of the 
>loops, or it is UNDER them in some manner, and thereby reducing road 
>clearance.
>
>Some have said to replace the radiator shield with the TR6 unit, and 
>then the TR6 bar fits properly.  This might be the way to go.  I 
>really like the Goodparts sway bar, and its linkages.  As you saw, 
>one lister said that Richard could make a custom size bar without 
>much trouble.  That still leaves the problem of the tow loops being 
>in the way.  Do I hear a cut-off tool?
>


-- 
Bill  Pugh
1957 TR3 TS16765L
aka
Casper
1970 TR6 CC59179L
aka
Rosey
Wallace, CA


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