It was one of those weird times of the day today.. like just after 3pm when there’s was some dead time between my last project (hanging a new overhead fan) and dinner. I was sitting there looking at the car and saying, “dang… a whole weekend and nothing done on the ‘teg.” Well that’s when I started wondering how easy it’d be to get that rear swaybar on.

I had been eyeball’n a couple of times, but just thought it’d be a day project. Or I thought I’d do one then the other same day, but recently my projects have been often sidelined… No worries tho~..

So I just wanna eye ball the project again by jacking up the rear to look underneath. I spot the stock sway bar and notice there’s not much to it… I then grab the instructions with a diagram on how it goes together and the wheels start turning… “let’s do it”

Without double thinking I go at it with sockets & wrenches and pull the stock assembly out and put together the parts for the aftermarket sway bar. There were some funky how to and where does this go for a couple of minutes, but once I figured it out– and put it together. Bingo.. 20 minutes of wrench work and it was nailed out by dinnertime. Well 10min after the first dinner call.

I was pushing to get it done before this thunderstorm hit… And I did it in the nick of time too.

Felt solid when I was done, but I’ll see tomorrow I guess. Anyway, between the stock bar and the aftermarket one I can see why such a bar is needed. The stock bar amounts to nothing more then a dowel to just ease the car before rolling… This new bar is super thick and strong and will probably do the job. I can see later on down the road though… I’ll be pulling all the stock suspension parts and replacing them 😛

Ah well.. good times..

~J out

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