[TR] Sway bar mounting on a small mouth TR3

[Paul Willoughby]

I used the addco sway bar on my 56 TR3.  I made custom center brackets out 
of some angle iron and bolted them under the radiator mounting bolts.

paulw
Torrance, CA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: "'triumph list'" <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Sway bar mounting on a small mouth TR3


>> I see the Addco front sway bar (anti-sway if you prefer) is
>> only listed for
>> the 58 and later TR3 with the beefier front bumper brackets.
>> Has anyone here
>> mounted a front sway bar on the earlier TR3 or TR2?  What
>> make sway bar?
>
> Well, since the PO had put a later front apron on my 56, I decided to 
> leave
> it and use the later style bumper brackets to mount my ADDCO sway bar. 
> But
> eventually, I plan to make some custom brackets, so I can keep the ADDCO 
> bar
> and convert to the earlier bumper & apron.
>
> In fact, the factory-optional bar for the TR4 used such brackets, so that
> would be one potential source for them (although of course the TR4 bar is
> too wide for the TR3 and the ADDCO bar would have to be modified at best 
> to
> work with the TR4 mounts).
>
> Another solution is to turn the bar around backwards, and mount the 
> brackets
> to the bottom of the frame.  But that leaves them hanging down rather 
> close
> to the ground, so I decided not to go that route.
>
> BTW, I don't believe the issue with the early bumper mounts is necessarily
> strength, as much as they simply don't offer any place to put the bar
> mounts.  If you were inclined that way, I suspect you could even make
> brackets that would clamp to the early bumper mounts and in turn provide a
> flat place for the sway bar mounts.  The forces involved aren't very 
> large.
>
> Randall
>
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