Sway bar link brackets.
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Sway bar link brackets.
I picked up some grand cherokee sway bar links and need to make a "U" channel for the upper links. I was wondering what thickness and material to use? Home depot has some 1/8 x 1 1/4 steel but it seems a bit over kill, and not the easiest to bend.
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1/8 isnt even close to overkill......most aftermarket ones are 3/16-1/4''.....if your talking about making sway bar link adapters.
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There is a lot of pressure put into our sway bars. I would think 1/4" minimum. I would source some small structural channel and place a small cut on edge if you just insisted on going this route. Why not just get links? I would start a thread in this section after/while you're building these btw...
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There is a lot of pressure put into our sway bars. I would think 1/4" minimum. I would source some small structural channel and place a small cut on edge if you just insisted on going this route. Why not just get links? I would start a thread in this section after/while you're building these btw...
Ill get some pics once I get things movin. Gotta finish my heat core fix first.
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I made some new cheap disconnect's for the front sway bar. I used to have a 3" Lift and was running a set of skyjacker quick disconnect's, but when I added more lift and am now at 6.5" of lift I made longer disconnect's for it. Basically I just got some 1/2" rigid conduit pipe cut to length I needed, welded 2 pieces together and drilled the holes for the pins to go through. And painted to preference.
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