In some of the books on my shelf and I think in some of my old catalogs,
the sways look like they are simply made from varying sizes of steel
electrical conduit.

Am I seeing things?

Seems like a cheap sway bar for some applications!


CHRIS in Tennessee
scmills@...
ICQ: 5944649

'78 VW Westfalia (maybe some CIS injection,Corvair, turbos

I don't know from experience, but from what I have read (advertisements) &
what makes sense to me, the rods have to be made out of solid bar stock (&
somewhat tempered, at that) in order to provide much stability. I don't
think conduit would do anything at all.

Regards,
Doug Pewterbaugh
dpewter@...
Denton, TX
49 3104 216 5-window

Sway bars are definitely NOT electrical conduit. They are solid steel bars
that are tempered, just as any spring. Conduit has virtually no spring
properties and no strength. Don't even begin to try to fabricate one from
conduit.

(Did I just fall for a different version of the "air cooled brake lines"
question?)

Jon
'53 3100

conduit is hollow sway bars are solid not tubes.

I can assure they are not made from electrical conduit, which is hollow soft
tubing, but rather 1 and 1/8 solid spring steel. The bushings are
polyurethane. I use a sway bar on my 50 and feel it's worth every penny.
Next to radial tires its the best handling improvement I've made. Nice flat
cornering. Sold by many but made by ADCO.

Grant
50 Chevy 3100
52 GMC 150

Holly and