70 Dart Swinger.
I replaced my shocks, ball joints, and tie rod ends this weekend. After bringing my car to get aligned I was told that my control arm bushings were bad enough that they could not set camber on my tires.

Irritating to say the least.

So I ordered a poly boshing set from PST (Including Strut Rod Bushings).

While I am under the car removing my control arms, I am going to have to loosen/remove T-Bars. I was going to buy a sway bar for my next frivolous purchase, but maybe I should upgrade to larger T-Bar?

What do you all recomend?
What would be a better upgrade?
They are nearly identical in price.
If I get T-Bars should I get .870 or .890?

Thanks in advance,

Tim Smith

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My Swinger gets the Highlight Valet Parking spot over the German sports cars on the Sunset Strip. I love my Mopar.

Sway bar

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Yeah....Im the one who destroyed this rare, vintage automobile.....

IMO, If you can only afford one or the other,I would go with the sway bar and if you feel you need more you can upgrade later to larger t-bars.
The roads around here are washboard rough and larger t-bars have actually hampered the handling on my cars in the past,so for my current build I am using the stock t-bars with larger sway bars and KYB shocks in hopes that the softer t-bars and quality shocks will keep my car from bouncing off the road while the sway bars will prevent body roll when driving "spiritadely" through the twisties.
I hope this helps.
HyperValiant

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1960 Hyper-Pac Valiant(rolling test-bed)
1963 Valiant V2OO(Son's summer project,- he just turned 15 )
1972 Valiant 4dr(Daughter Kelly's repair in progress)
1974 Valiant (v8) daughter Kelly's work in progress

Personally, if you're into the front end, and you have the $130-140 extra for new T-bars, I would upgrade to 0.890s for a driver - no extra labor. It will not ride any harder than any newer car, but will improve handling.

You should ALSO probably have a sway bar, and if I had the choice between the two, I would probably just get a sway bar.

Lou

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Home of Slant6-powered fun machines since 1988

Sway bars, are you limited to a stock replacement or can you get better sway bars from other cars or is their another option?

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My car may be slow to sixty, but at least it's been reliably slow to sixty for more than thirty years.

If you don't have the factory brackets on the lower CA's, I'd go with larger T-bars. Like somebody else said, no extra work. I don't remember the dia's, but 340 T-bars ride good and handle well. I've got '76 police bars in my Cuda, they're a little overkill, but I like them.
You can always add the sway bar later.

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'66 Cuda 225/4spd
'66 Dart GT convertible 225/auto
'64 Dart GT 340/4spd

I'd check some junkyards out...maybe someone in your are has a set lying against the wall, any 1973-1976 A-body will have the .850 (890/891) set under them..if they were equipped with 318 A/C or 340/360 then you get eh .870 bars (892/893)...possibly you can grab a stiffer used set for $50(+/-) then add an after market sway bar too...


-D.Idiot

i have on my car what measures up to be the .870 bars (340 a-body bars). im going to sell em as im going to put on some .920 bars. email me at twobarrelking@hotmail.com if you are interested. iwill be doing the swap in the next few weeks.

--chad

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74 swinger slant 6, the slowest, most fun car i have ever owned.