My Pig has a rear anti-swaybar. Is it stock? For some reason, I thought that the FJ62 (in the US) was the first to get one. I dunno.
My Pig is a 02/73.
My Pig is a 02/73.
Do all Pigs have one?
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tucker74
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Yep - but he 45 lv/lwb were the first to get them. You should see the booty-fab work the PO of my pig did to extend them when he did a SOA conversion. Think re-bar baby!
Tucker
Tucker
No. In I think '78 or '79 they offered a heavy duty package (as told to me by Mark W years ago) that would offer either a 9 leaf rear spring pack, or a 5+ a diving board rear pack. Both the '79s I have owned had the 5+DB spring packs and no anti-sway bar, and both had stock suspension.
Edit: neither of them had tabs on the axles for the mounts either.
Edit: neither of them had tabs on the axles for the mounts either.
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Booty Fab Pic Please!
That is funny stuff. Re-bar. No kidding? I wonder if I could make some tail light guards from re-bar?
Here is what the PO did to mine: "It died on the freeway."
Thanks
That is funny stuff. Re-bar. No kidding? I wonder if I could make some tail light guards from re-bar?
Here is what the PO did to mine: "It died on the freeway."
Thanks
surfpig
The Anti-Tech
Yeah, and: "It's running a bit rough, just needs a tune-up". And "I couldn't find any rust on the thing, it's 99% rust free!"
Nial
cruiser_guy
Out of Africa / North Africa
My daughters '76 FJ55 has a stock sway bar in the rear.
My 73 has the rear sway bar. I have spent enough time under there the past few weeks to notice. The extra axle I bought also had one that came with it I think it came off of a 72 maybe.
Both my '70 and '77 had /have a stock rear sway bar also.
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Hodag
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My 74' has one, but it is lying in the back of the garage. The PO took it off to put on the 2.5" exhaust. Has anyone compared the ride of the truck with and without? I need to see if it would be worth putting it back on. Thanks, Hodag
My 69 has it and I don't think that I'll take it off. That thing scares me in the corners already
My early 1969 needs it. Even with it, it flexes great. I guess after 36 years of use, the sway bar should flex a little. 2.75" BS rims gave a noticable feeling of stability compared to the old rims I had.
Mark W
Yep, I really don't really care that much I guess.
I've never persoanlly seen a Pig that didn't have a rear sway bar, or at least the remains (mounting points) where one used to be. If there is a axle from a '40 swapped in then there won'tbe any attachment points on the axle, but there should still be the frame side attachment points.
The rear springs changed in '79 but I'm not sure that they were really any "heavier duty", just a different configuration... 5 plus an overload. Brian, the 9 leaf you mention may be hazy memory from me talking about the 9 or 10 leaf springs I had in the rear of my '78. But they were not stock but were instead a homebuilt conglomeration.
Mark...
Mark...
The rear springs changed in '79 but I'm not sure that they were really any "heavier duty", just a different configuration... 5 plus an overload. Brian, the 9 leaf you mention may be hazy memory from me talking about the 9 or 10 leaf springs I had in the rear of my '78. But they were not stock but were instead a homebuilt conglomeration.
Mark...
Mark...
tucker74
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Here ya go -tonkota said:That is funny stuff. Re-bar. No kidding? I wonder if I could make some tail light guards from re-bar?
Thanks
I like the nice bend in the drivers side - I guess it wasn't strong enough
You had to make me take a closer look ... another thing add this to the list of stuff to do 
Tucker
A failing memory could explain the springs, but I know the mounts weren't there on either '79 55s (I don't have the vins anymore either for exact dates. 
) Me and the gas axe got real familier too with the red one.
Anyone else out there with a '79 FJ55?
) Me and the gas axe got real familier too with the red one. Anyone else out there with a '79 FJ55?
my 78 fj55 has the sway bar, as does my 66 fj45LPV and 64 fj45LV.
I do think I have seen in non US parts books a fj40(maybe a 43) sway bar, but not in the US.
I do think I have seen in non US parts books a fj40(maybe a 43) sway bar, but not in the US.
Ot
Hodag... Dude.... Love that Land Of the Lost "Sleestack" avatar... LOL!
Im starting to feel real old now.
Hodag... Dude.... Love that Land Of the Lost "Sleestack" avatar... LOL!
Im starting to feel real old now.
Have you ever seen the espn thing about the sleestack's they were played by like college bball players to make money and one of them was someone real famous like bill bradley maybe. Sorry for the tangent but I think we have gotten the idea that they all have the sway bar unless a PO did somethign to it.
i have seen alot of pigs, including both of mine, and they all have rear sway bars.
ridgerunner, there is a 79 local to me, i will have to go look at it again to see if theres a sway bar.
ridgerunner, there is a 79 local to me, i will have to go look at it again to see if theres a sway bar.
Someone has been selling the sway bars on Ebay prettey regular lately. Claims they are new. Maybe from oz 
