optional rear anti-sway bar attachment
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optional rear anti-sway bar attachment
I have an '89 Caprice with the F41 sport suspension option. Included in this 'package' is a REAR anti-sway bar. It is described via an 'exploded' diagram in the GM shop manual, on page 3D-7, figure 9, entitled "stabilizer shaft". A "bracket" is used to attach the stabilizer bar to the lower control arm in the rear, on each side of the car. The GM shop manual diagram number is: KC1009-3D-B-RP.
My latest acquisition endured some New England Winters... and the "bracket", a thinner-metal stamping, has rusted away.... and my anti-sway bar has become detached at one end. The anti-sway bar itself is just fine: no damage. I need at least one, preferably two, replacement 'brackets'.
The problem is most "old Chevy" parts dealers are all performance-oriented. They're not likely to have such an item. I would like to have the GM part number for this bracket, but don't know where to get it.
I figure that I need to find a junkyard / salvage yard.. in a relatively low-rust area... that has an old Caprice with said anti-sway bar... so I can buy a replacement bracket or two. This is not easy, given that most "junkies" have long since crushed anything near the age of my 1989 Caprice.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Jerry Chase [optionally: [email=jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]
My latest acquisition endured some New England Winters... and the "bracket", a thinner-metal stamping, has rusted away.... and my anti-sway bar has become detached at one end. The anti-sway bar itself is just fine: no damage. I need at least one, preferably two, replacement 'brackets'.
The problem is most "old Chevy" parts dealers are all performance-oriented. They're not likely to have such an item. I would like to have the GM part number for this bracket, but don't know where to get it.
I figure that I need to find a junkyard / salvage yard.. in a relatively low-rust area... that has an old Caprice with said anti-sway bar... so I can buy a replacement bracket or two. This is not easy, given that most "junkies" have long since crushed anything near the age of my 1989 Caprice.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Jerry Chase [optionally: [email=jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]
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I have an '89 Caprice with the F41 sport suspension option. Included in this 'package' is a REAR anti-sway bar. It is described via an 'exploded' diagram in the GM shop manual, on page 3D-7, figure 9, entitled "stabilizer shaft". A "bracket" is used to attach the stabilizer bar to the lower control arm in the rear, on each side of the car. The GM shop manual diagram number is: KC1009-3D-B-RP.
My latest acquisition endured some New England Winters... and the "bracket", a thinner-metal stamping, has rusted away.... and my anti-sway bar has become detached at one end. The anti-sway bar itself is just fine: no damage. I need at least one, preferably two, replacement 'brackets'.
The problem is most "old Chevy" parts dealers are all performance-oriented. They're not likely to have such an item. I would like to have the GM part number for this bracket, but don't know where to get it.
I figure that I need to find a junkyard / salvage yard.. in a relatively low-rust area... that has an old Caprice with said anti-sway bar... so I can buy a replacement bracket or two. This is not easy, given that most "junkies" have long since crushed anything near the age of my 1989 Caprice.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Jerry Chase [optionally: [email=jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]
My latest acquisition endured some New England Winters... and the "bracket", a thinner-metal stamping, has rusted away.... and my anti-sway bar has become detached at one end. The anti-sway bar itself is just fine: no damage. I need at least one, preferably two, replacement 'brackets'.
The problem is most "old Chevy" parts dealers are all performance-oriented. They're not likely to have such an item. I would like to have the GM part number for this bracket, but don't know where to get it.
I figure that I need to find a junkyard / salvage yard.. in a relatively low-rust area... that has an old Caprice with said anti-sway bar... so I can buy a replacement bracket or two. This is not easy, given that most "junkies" have long since crushed anything near the age of my 1989 Caprice.
Ideas? Suggestions?
Jerry Chase [optionally: [email=jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]jerrychase_at_large@yahoo.com]
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First off I'd look at the specialty vendors who like the Impala SS.
Stock / base-model lower control arms are stamped steel and
can't stand off the crush force of the sway bar bolts unless you
put an insert. This could be a couple chunks of scrap aluminum
of proper thickness and two holes apiece. Or a couple bits of
1/2" iron pipe with maybe fender washers to taper out the load.
Boxing the arms could firm things up but you need the internal
reinforcement.
Stock / base-model lower control arms are stamped steel and
can't stand off the crush force of the sway bar bolts unless you
put an insert. This could be a couple chunks of scrap aluminum
of proper thickness and two holes apiece. Or a couple bits of
1/2" iron pipe with maybe fender washers to taper out the load.
Boxing the arms could firm things up but you need the internal
reinforcement.
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