While I was at Tucci Hot Rods last week, I installed a Welder Series universal sway bar on the giveaway car they’re building for the NSRA this year. It was a good exercise- installing something you sell 
Dave wanted the sway bar arms mounted facing forward, between the coilovers. Instead of using two #227005 mounts, we used six #70004 tabs on two different centerlines to mount the outer tube. Here are some install pictures…
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- Here’s the #WS22700 sway bar kit sitting at Tucci’s.
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- After determining where the arms should end up on the axle, the outer tube was trimmed to length.
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- After the outer tube is trimmed, the sway bar can be cut to length as well. It will need to be about 2-1/8″ longer than the outer tube. Or you can line it up on the floor and mark it :)
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- Since the arms were mounting narrower than the coilovers, we used six tabs to mount the outer tube.
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- These tabs were mounted in pairs, three to the outer tube and three to the rear crossmember.
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- If the tabs were all mounted in the same orientation, the tube could pivot on the mounting bolts. Offsetting one set of mounting tabs keeps the tube from pivoting.
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- The end of the sway bar that was trimmed gets pinned (and) welded to the smooth bore coupler. I welded it on the end so there’s no interference with the urethane bushing on the other side.
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- Now the axle tab position can be determined by assembling the arms/heims/tabs and bringing them to the axle.
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- For consistency’s sake, make sure both the heims are on either the inner or outer side of the sway bar arms.
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- Also make sure your frame is at ride height when you’re installing the sway bar…
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- The Welder Series sway bar is easy to install or retrofit to an existing frame.
Thanks for letting me borrow your camera, Dave!
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