DeTomaso Mailing List: April 2001, Message #6

I'm trying to mount my new 1" hollow sway bar (with spherebar ends).
With the bar mounted to the rear, the ends are seriously missaligned
with the A-Arm sway bar mounting holes. On the right side, the bar looks
to be about 1/4" forward, on the left it's about 3/4". Something
(surprise?) is not square.


Thinking it was the bar, I took it off. It is slightly asymmetric, but
mostly right to left and only about 1/4". This is more of a centering
issue. So I put a straight edge across the rear. The distance from the
straight edge to the mounting holes is about 1/2" different left to
right with the left being further back. This agrees with the sway bar offsets.

Is this typical? What to do? The most obvious solution is to attach the
ends and then crank down on the rear end (center) mounts to draw the bar
in. The problem with this is that on the left side, the mounts are off
the ends of the studs so unless I can get a clamp around it to draw it
down a bit, I can't even get started. BTW, jacking up the suspension
(the car is up on blocks) doesn't help, in fact it makes things worse.

Open to any suggestions.

Richard Barkley