I just put an Addco bar on the front of the 64 Valiant. The whole thing has been reconstructed....so I'm not sure about how the front end was before installing it.

Anyway...with the bar installed and everything looking square...I welded the brackets onto the K frame. One LCA seems to pull heavier on the bar to make them both level (make sense?)

ON the car, when I put in the T bars, One bar is easier to adjust up, then the other. To get both wheels level, one adjuster needs to be turned in ~ 1/4 more than the other! I tried this with 2 different sets of bars, and got the same thing.

I'm worried about it affecting handling...any comments?

Don't worry about the Tbar adjustments. They will vary.

I don't understand your sway bar comment, though - pulls heavier?

Lou

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Just a guess, but with the engine leaning toward the passenger side there is more weight on that side. It does affect handling but only to a slight degree and only a few expert drivers ever notice it... I'm not one of those. Tom McCahill documented the phenomenon in an early road test of the Valiant.

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What I mean is that I was able to assemble the end link on the pass. side by bare hand. On the drivers side, I had to squeeze the sway bar and LCA together with a C clamp, to be able to start the nut on the end link bolt. Its almost like I'd need to shorten the endlink on the passenger side, so that I have more slack to assemble the drivers side. Make sense?

Yep. I would suggest getting the ride height even on both sides of the car first, then bolt up one side of the sway bar and find out how much you need to lengthen the other side or shorten the first side.

If you don't "balance" the sway bar like this, it will bias your front suspension a little and work better in one turning direction than the other.

Lou

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I only make left turns anyway....

Just think. In Britain they turn to the right on oval tracks. The slant would have had an unfair advantage!

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The ideal way to do this would be to weigh each corner individually, and perform a crossweight adjustment. Pretty involved, but not a bad idea if you're building a car for serious handling.

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