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OK Jack, if you are sure the locators are superfluous, then are you going to leave them off your car when you install a sway bar?
 
No no, you don't understand. I think all those bit are required of course. I just do not think the locators keep the bar from slideing sideways. I think it keeps the bar tucked up under the frame in one spot and keeps it from moveing for and aft.
 
We're all saying the same thing, I think...what bothered me initially was this statement someone made: "Even hoseclamps will work very well and will not slide. Remember, however, the bar must be able to slip around..."

&, Jack, those links will move in all directions; thus, if there weren't good, tight #'s 56 the bar would be "slipping around".

I've got everything to install a sway bar on my '63 Midget & PeterC is sending me a set of rebuild lower wishbones that will take it!
 
I have a swaybar out on my workbench to clean and paint and install as soon as I get around to ordering the new parts.
 
Jack, we are talking about different parts. The part that bolts to the frame rails holds the bushing and the bar in the proper fore-aft position and holds it next to the frame rail. the locators clamp onto the bar and keep it from sliding side to side.
 
Well shucks. Guess I need to really see a pic. The IPB the orginal one does not show this well.

Are these clamps that go outside the frame mounts and bushings to locate the bar?
 
In the words of Charlie Brown.... "Arrrrrgg"

Yes.
 
Jack - when you get here on the 6th, you can look up underneath my RWA Midget to see what the Moss diagram is showing you.
 
Scott, If you look at my first post in this thread ... you'll see that I was feeling the same way. Then I thought I'd try to clarify things, and ... well... I should have stayed out of it. Any the answer to the first question. Depending on what you use for a clamp, inner or out may be fine. I THINK (but certainly do not know) they were originally on the outside of the bushings (closest to the wheels).
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I THINK (but certainly do not know) they were originally on the outside of the bushings (closest to the wheels).[/QUOTE]
That's the question I want answered!
 
Good times!! Trevor, the locators could be on the outside of one and the inside of the other. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
 
Well Tony... on the '79 that I parted out recently, they were on the outside and looked undisturbed.
 
Then where the bugger are mine?
 
Trevor Jessie said:
Well Tony... on the '79 that I parted out recently, they were on the outside and looked undisturbed.
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That's where they are on my 2 Midgets that have sway bars.
 
Are these indeed just a clamp thing around the sway bar?
 
Yes, Jack! They clamp around the bar up against the brackets where the bar is attached to the car - they keep the bar from slipping sideways.
 
Ok, makes sense I guess, must keep the thing centered during regular road use if it is going to be ready for the tough stuff.

Wonder how far it could really slip without them, guess we will never know. Oh heck I will. I will test when I add mine this year.
 
"Good times!! Trevor, the locators could be on the outside of one and the inside of the other."

But than you could only turn in one direction like NASCAR cars.
 
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