Just a quick cautionary note to those thinking of installing the Dennis Welch
rear sway bar. It requires welding to the rear axle, and my restorer did what
appeared to be very elegant, neat welds. His mig was not hot enough, and after
less 750 miles of use, the sway bar broke loose. The guy who is doing the
repair says that sway bars are under extreme stress, and that this does
happen. According to him, the only way to do this correctly is to do some
heavy, gross welds to ensure positive attachement, and then to clean it up
cosmetically with an overbeading that is a bit neater.
I would say, that for the 750 miles, the ride was 300% better. There is no
question that the swaybar transforms the performance (in conjunction with the
larger DW front bar). Definitely would recommend this conversion, and hope all
considering it verify the welds are strong.
BTW, I was able to get a rear exhaust out of this, which was in question
before we installed the sway bar unit. Some people thought you were limited to
the side exhaust (deafness assured) option. It is true you can't fit the DW
tramp bar, but the sway bar has lots of clearance, even with the 100M 2" big
bore exhaust pipe.
Allen Miller BN2/M
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