Has anyone built their own torsion bar sway bars? I've looked and seen people have done it - but they've all done horrible jobs of write ups. Anyone have decient info on how ot do it?
Torsion bar Swaybar - from IFS torsion bars?
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Why? There are plenty of kits out there.
Because torsion bars and arms are not that expensive to get compared to an anti-rock or similar kit. I was suprised at the cost when I looked into them having come from racing where they're not that expensive.
My advice would be check out the dirt track and circle track suppliers for rate charts compared to length and diameter and go from there. Used bars are fine for this app and can be had for around 50 dollars, arms aren't very expensive either. Find a local roundy round shop and see what they'd want.
This is probably the most descriptive post I can find on making a set. Hopefully $50 at a junkyard will yield all the parts. Then its just fabwork to make the arms.
Super cheap junkyard swaybar - Pirate4x4.Com Bulletin Board
Super cheap junkyard swaybar - Pirate4x4.Com Bulletin Board
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Or $0.00 if one of your club members did an SAS on his toy and wants to clean some junk out of his garage!
Thanks for the link. The two big questions I've had have been about mouting the arms and the bushings. This at least answers the bushing, I'm still not clear on the arms. The one side makes sense, the other side I'm not so sure on cause of the cast iron part. Cast iron isn't easily weldable is it?
Seems if I have to come up with my own mounting on a anti-rock, and still end up having to experiment with link and arm lengths to get it tuned into my truck since it's a universal deal, that $400 is an awful lot of money to slap down. If it was bolt in, and tuned for my truck, maybe it'd be worth that coin to me, but since money is always tight - I'd rather go for next to free.
If I've looked it up right, toy bars are 22mm (.866") and 41-7/8" long - so probably a little stiffer than the currie ones, at least w/ the same length arms - which is fine, I doubt those Currie kits are really tuned for a 6,000 lb truck
http://www.currieenterprises.com/cestore/Product.aspx?id=1254
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I'm guessing "if I read that right", there is a keyed steel side and a keyed cast side. You could possibly rob the two steel parts to make your arms.
As for the cast parts, if its toyota it will be cast steel, not iron. Which is perfectly weldable, just like if your welding to an axle housing or knuckle. Some preheat to be safe.
As for the cast parts, if its toyota it will be cast steel, not iron. Which is perfectly weldable, just like if your welding to an axle housing or knuckle. Some preheat to be safe.
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Each end is a different spline though - 3/4 the way down this-
Toyota Tech: Upgrading Torsion Bars
So you can't use the same fitting on each end. I supoose the A-arm end you could just bolt the sway bar arm to it as if you were bolting on the a-arm. I'll see what it looks like when I'm finally able to get the parts. The friend w/ the parts and I both have lives that are very full outside of Toyotas.
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