[tcb] Re: Sway bars on a splitty

  • From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:11:56 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

You can buy an aftermarket sway bar kit from a few vendors.  Therefore you 
don't need to modify one from a 67.  Latest Rage and others sell them.  As for 
Steering boxes, you can get 
New TRW units for busses as well as get them redone by a few folks.  Wolfgang 
does a good job.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sep 20, 2006 2:51 PM
>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tcb] Re: Sway bars on a splitty
>
>Rebuilt sterring boxes are RARE. I wanted one early on until Wolfgang wanted 
>mucho denaro and would not ship me one until they had mine in their hands. 
>They would not sell one at any price without exchange because they are so 
>hard to accuire. I ended up taking mine off and taking it apart. I cleaned 
>out some grit, made sure that the slider doohickey moved up and down filled 
>it with fluid and I think it works as well as any bus I've driven.
>
>P-mail me with the actual cost of your disk brakes.
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "singlecabboy" <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:41 PM
>Subject: [tcb] Re: Sway bars on a splitty
>
>
>Denis , I'M gonna get rid of my problem with a rebuilt
>steering box(I hope).
>
>--- Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> You admit to owning Volvo station wagons????
>>
>> Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:          I have
>> had a question and project that has raised a
>> discussion and I'll throw it out here.
>>
>>   I used to have Volvo station wagons and twice I
>> put aftermarket sway bars on them. It improved them
>> a bunch. So now I am considering a swaybar for my
>> '63 bus to reduce the rocking in turns.
>>
>>   Only the '67 had a swaybar from the factory. I can
>> put a bar from the '67 if I grind off some of the
>> metal on the connecting rod so that it will accept
>> both the bar's clamp and the shock absorber.
>>
>>   Is it worth it? Will it greatly stabilize the
>> rocking?
>>
>>   I don't want this to sound like Chuck's Megasquirt
>> or anything that Brian comes up with, it sounds
>> simple, is it?
>>
>>
>
>
>Paul Smith
>www.23window.com/thezone
>Why do I have to push "1" for English
>T.C.B.
>H.B.B.
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