[DeTomaso] Techno Question: installation of sway bars

[johnmckee]

Chuck,I recently gave up that task and decided that I must need the extra weight of the engine and transaxle to assist with bolt hole alignment. Drive train installation will hopefully be in the next few weeks.Then I begin that sway bar dance again...JohnSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> Date: 2/26/20  7:04 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com Subject: [DeTomaso] Techno Question: installation of sway bars Dear Forum,                  There I was facing a re-installation of a rear GTS sway barwith poly bushings and sphereball A-arm mounts.   My first thought was thisshould go along quickly.   Then things quickly went the way of all theprevious procedures.  What looks and seems simple deteriorates into a longseries of back&forth fiddly sequences to slowly bring all the parts of thesway bar into position and alignment and get all the bolts threaded, etc,etc.                  Then once all that is done, you don't tighten it all up andcall it a day, you leave it loose, come off the jack stands and let thesuspension settle.   Then tighten up the sway bar.                   It occurred to me that perhaps, I have been doing itwrong.  Perhaps there is a *good* and *simple* method that I am ignorant of.                   Is there a better way to wrestle the sway bar intoposition??                               Curious and philosophical,  Chuck Engles                 Follow up of the engine hatch in the bulkhead and weatherstripping.   Bill Gaino and Tom Galli both recommended butyl rubberwindshield sealant.  I found mine at NAPA  #MS-4195.    A big roll that willdo two or three hatches was $22.00.    Sticky and malleable and good.
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   Chuck,

   I recently gave up that task and decided that I must need the extra
   weight of the engine and transaxle to assist with bolt hole alignment.
   Drive train installation will hopefully be in the next few weeks.

   Then I begin that sway bar dance again...

   John

   Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

   -------- Original message --------
   From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
   Date: 2/26/20 7:04 PM (GMT-08:00)
   To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
   Subject: [DeTomaso] Techno Question: installation of sway bars

   Dear Forum,
                    There I was facing a re-installation of a rear GTS
   sway bar
   with poly bushings and sphereball A-arm mounts.   My first thought was
   this
   should go along quickly.   Then things quickly went the way of all the
   previous procedures.  What looks and seems simple deteriorates into a
   long
   series of back&forth fiddly sequences to slowly bring all the parts of
   the
   sway bar into position and alignment and get all the bolts threaded,
   etc,
   etc.
                    Then once all that is done, you don't tighten it all
   up and
   call it a day, you leave it loose, come off the jack stands and let the
   suspension settle.   Then tighten up the sway bar.
                     It occurred to me that perhaps, I have been doing it
   wrong.  Perhaps there is a *good* and *simple* method that I am
   ignorant of.
                     Is there a better way to wrestle the sway bar into
   position??
                                 Curious and philosophical,  Chuck Engles
                 Follow up of the engine hatch in the bulkhead and weather
   stripping.   Bill Gaino and Tom Galli both recommended butyl rubber
   windshield sealant.  I found mine at NAPA  #MS-4195.    A big roll that
   will
   do two or three hatches was $22.00.    Sticky and malleable and good.