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Rear Sway bar annd mounts for a 1973 Plymouth Satellite wanted.

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Rocket

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Dec 1, 2009, 6:33:47 PM12/1/09
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Anyone have a way rear sway bar and mounts in good condition that they
would like to sell?
Thanks so much!

KirkM

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Dec 2, 2009, 2:17:08 PM12/2/09
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It looks like Year One has reproduction bushings, it doesn't mention
anything about the sway bar.

KM

Steve

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Dec 2, 2009, 3:30:08 PM12/2/09
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Aftermarket bars (like Addco) are available. Or you could find a stocker
in a wrecking yard that has older cars, which is how I added a REAR sway
bar to my '73 Satellite.

C-B...@webtv.net

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Dec 5, 2009, 11:45:26 PM12/5/09
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You'll need the plate that goes between the rear spring and the rear
axle mount, which also is the lower mount for the shock absorber, I
think. From there, the bar and mounting bushings/grommets/brackets
where it mounts to the rear body, plus bolts and the related end links.
It should be a bolt-in situation, especially if you can find a car in
the salvage yard . . . less so, possibly, you choose an aftermarket bar
that might require more "cut and fit" operations.

My gut suspicion is that you can find a bar from a '75 era Cordoba
(which had rear sway bars as standard equipment for the first couple of
years). Usually just one diameter bar for the normal cars, with a
slightly larger one for the police versions. In some cases, they were
billed as being for "radial tuned suspensions" and were part of that
package on the '73-'74 Road Runners (which came with the GR70-15
Goodyear radials on W23 Class II 16-slot Road Wheels (when other Road
Runners had 14" wheels or 60-series 15" tires on Rallye wheels).

The similar B-body cars of that '73+ era could all be possibilities, but
the Cordoba versions all came with bars as standard equipment. The
similar Dodge Chargers had them as optional, as I recall, and also came
with bias-belted tires as standard rather than radials (which the
Cordoba had). Same with the Satellites and Coronets.

The police-spec bar is marginally larger in diameter. It might be nice
to find a small Fury police car . . . plus the many other HD parts they
had . . . but the small additional increase in size will probably not
make a significant difference in how it drives and corners. The fact
there's a sway bar back there is the main thing.

Enjoy!

C-BODY

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