This is a shot of the rear sway-bar
assembly.
What I am going to do is remove these pieces and make new ones to mount
on the inside of the frame-rail instead of the outside. Why?? With this on the outside of the frame-rail, I'll have to give up an inch of
tire size because the back of the tire would hit the sway-bar arm. By relocating the sway-bar
assembly to the inside, I can have a wider
tire. Now this is a lot of work just to gain ONE inch but that's what I
want so let's get started.
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This is a shot of the other (inside)
side of the frame-rail. Notice the braided stainless brake line and the
bracket that it goes to. Now notice the solid stainless brake line
coming out the other side of the same bracket. These will have to be
moved too. The reason for moving the brake lines are because the new
sway-bar arm will locate next to the frame-rail on the existing sway-bar
and would hit the lines.
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After removing the sway-bar arm, you
can see the bar is to long now. The end of the sway-bar will have to be cut off. It's like this on the other side
as well and will be cut too.
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Here you can see the brake line
bracket that will have to be removed and relocated. The new location of
the bracket will be welded to the inside of the frame-rail in back of
the sway-bar through hole (about three inches) centered from top to
bottom.
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