Front Sway Bar Links

I'm in need of new front swaybar links, does anyone have a part number and or vender where I can order them? The local NAPA store didn't have anything listed. Thanks

Linoman wrote:I'm in need of new front swaybar links, does anyone have a part number and or vender where I can order them? The local NAPA store didn't have anything listed. Thanks

Listening with great interest as I need a set also

I think the auto parts stores sell universal sets in red urethane. The bolts are a little larger in diameter but they should work. The same company sells swaybar bushing kits.

That would be the one. Thanks donivan65!

Thanks donivan, unfortunately none of those are right. mine are an eyelet bolt that mounts with the shock bolt on the opposite side of the axle.

Now that I've had a moment to search the net I found it
http://www.carpartsdiscount.com/auto/parts/66/ford/econoline/sway_bars_stabilizers/sway_bar_linkage.html?3593=33938

You can buy them easily from Summit. The lower mounts are listed as hourglass, and are actually shock mounts. Here are the part numbers. The upper body mount ones also have grease fittings for them.
vic

SWAY BAR BUSHING PART NUMBERS
SUMMIT RACING CATALOG

ENS-9-5156R bushings, Front/Rear sway bar, Polyurethane, Red
¾” diameter universal

ENS-9-8106R Sway Bar End Links, Polyurethane Bushings
Red, .375 I.D.,, 1.000 O.D.

ENS-9-8107R Bushings, Shock, Polyurethane, Red, Hourglass Eye
1.438” long, .625” I.D.,,1.500” O.D

Rare parts has them as well I believe

http://shop.rareparts.com/ez135/shopdisplayproducts.asp

My truck never had a sway bar. I have one to put on it, can someone post a pic of how it mounts?

I just ordered a pair of these. Is this what you need?

I understand that the straight end of the piece in the picture goes through the eye in the end of the sway bar, what does the eye end of it attach to on the axel? there doesn't appear to be anything to mount it to

Sway bar setup simply uses a longer bolt through the axle, same as the shock, just longer.Far as the frame mount, the two holes are there already for you to bolt to.
vic

Thanks, the shock bolt is what I was looking for. I got a call from 66Thundervan a few minutes ago confirming that is what I was looking for.

Old Skool, you need a better picture.

Whats needed is some kind of magic trick to remove the bolts that these things mount to. I had to drill one of them out of my 67 axle... not much fun!...Just wish there was some was to get the bolt loose out of there, I tried heat, penetrating oil, impact guns..nothing worked but drilling it out.

My Bad,,,,Didn't have one with a shock bolt, and the other person asking was asking where the frame mount bolted to.
As the shock bolt only goes in one spot, I figured that one would be pretty obvious, but now that you bring it up,, the shock in its stock location ( as it will not go correctly on the wrong side anyways), and if you bolt in the sway bar, the link will only go on the other side of the axle...thus the longer bolt,,,
NOTE: The washers are special ones, as the ID for the bolt and the OD of the washers are not your generic types at the local hdw store. Get a larger OD thick one, and drill the hole out and it will cover the bushing better.
Be careful looking for the bolts also, don't make the mistake of threads supporting any bushings, will act like a file and tear em up,, ALWAYS support anything with a smooth shank of the bolt. Cut the end off if they stick out too far, if you have to, I do it all the time.
Regards to a new "link" and not the bushings,,, Moog sells them, I have a bunch of used ones, you can weld an old shock center bolt to make one, or modify a GENII one.
vic
vic

Old Skool ~ do you have the Moog part number?

Old Skool - Good info. I am searching for those sway bar mounts, which part number are those?

Just another option, I bought a set of these from rareparts.com

Part # is 15739

Only other option is a new axle,, LOL....I posted the numbers the other day,, same thread?? perhaps another thread of the same thing, same forum, here they are again,,

vic


SWAY BAR BUSHING PART NUMBERS
SUMMIT RACING CATALOG

ENS-9-5156R bushings, Front/Rear sway bar, Polyurethane, Red
¾” diameter universal

ENS-9-8106R Sway Bar End Links, Polyurethane Bushings
Red, .375 I.D.,, 1.000 O.D.

ENS-9-8107R Bushings, Shock, Polyurethane, Red, Hourglass Eye
1.438” long, .625” I.D.,,1.500” O.D.

Sorry, that was my ignorance. I didn't realize the top one was the part I was looking for, thanks again.