1962 Dodge Sway Bar

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1962 Dodge Sway Bar

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Hope someone out there can help me. I am looking for a front end sway bar for a 1962 Dodge D100 Town Wagon. Have been unable to locate one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! John

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THEY DID NOT HAVE THEM.

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Thanks for your quick response about the sway bar. Any idea if it is advisable to actually have a sway bar put on my '62 Dodge Town Wagon? Pros or cons??? Thanks again.

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You could probably adapt one from a 70-71 truck.

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Or adapt one from a 72 to 93 truck. :thinking

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dodgeboykim wrote:Or adapt one from a 72 to 93 truck. :thinking
I suggested the 70-71 because they have an axle very similar to the 62, where the 72-93 might need more fabrication to mount.

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johnandsheryl08 wrote:Hope someone out there can help me. I am looking for a front end sway bar for a 1962 Dodge D100 Town Wagon. Have been unable to locate one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! John
Down in Stockton for a '71....http://stockton.craigslist.org/pts/4844150196.html

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soopernaut wrote:
dodgeboykim wrote:Or adapt one from a 72 to 93 truck. :thinking
I suggested the 70-71 because they have an axle very similar to the 62, where the 72-93 might need more fabrication to mount.

I suggested this one only because it may be easier to find and they are thicker. :thinking :2cents

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Re: 1962 Dodge Sway Bar

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I have one which came off a sweptline. It comes with both the rubber and the metal brackets which encompass's it and holds it onto the frame support. The end piece both left and right would need to be replaced or fabricated as they are missing. I will sell it reasonable. Buyer to pay shipping cost. Gordo

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Unless you have the ability to drill the I beam for the sway bar mounts, it also requires the changing of the I beam.

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Re: 1962 Dodge Sway Bar

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A sway bar axle is also formed different, with a filled in area between the flanges that creates a flat pad where the sway bar attaches.

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The I-beam on a '70 - '71 has the holes for the sway bar incorporated into the axle itself. You'll have to fab up a mounting system that would go around the axle, to use that bar on an early axle. Top is early, bottom is late. See the holes on the later axle that are not present on the early one? And the later axle mounting bosses are thicker than that same area on the early axle. You decide.
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Re: 1962 Dodge Sway Bar

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Make it easy on your self get some devcon plastic steel clean the area real good fill the void in the middle let it harden up drill it them make the mount plate to touch both sides of axle the devcon is acting like a filler use fender washers on the back sides then bolt it together.works like a dream.
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