----- Original Message -----
From: "D&B Lambert" <blambert@socal.rr.com>
To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:30 PM
Subject: Addco Sway Bar
> I am in the process of installing an Addco front sway bar on my '61 TR3-A.
> Does anyone have some digital pictures of a completed installation they
> could send me?
I only have the excellent ones Brian Sanborn sent me of the TR4.
> The instructions leave a little to be desired,
Lucky you. The TR4 instructions left a lot to be desired.
> These
> are the ones that attach the bar to the bumper/frame brackets. Mine seem
to
> want to attach right about where the bar bends 90 degrees, and I thought
the
> bar has to have some "slide" room. If the bushings are indeed on, or very
> near the sway bar bend, this would seem to limit the sliding action
> capability.
There is no reason for a sway bar to need to slide laterally. The only
thing a sway bar needs to do in the central bushings is rotate. With a hard
bushing, this is actual rotation of the bar within the bushing. With a
rubber bushing, the rubber adheres to sway bar and bracket: The rotary
motion is accomplished through distortion of the bushing.
Let me know if I misunderstood the question.
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/ http://www.lotusowners.com
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