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Sway Bar Bending
Everyone will say this is not the thing to do but many years ago (before I knew better) I needed a different diameter front sway. I went to the local junk yard and found that an older model Cadillac had the diameter I wanted. I bought the bar for $10 and then used a cutting torch to heat the areas I wanted to bend to a bright orange. (with out using the extra oxygen of course). I bent the bar in about four places to get the shape I wanted and sprinkled water on it as each bend was completed to cool it but not so fast that it would crystallize. I ran that bar for a number of year's autoxing and never had a problem with it. I still have the bar in my parts bin, I suppose I was lucky, but it worked for me. A broken front sway bar can cause immediate oversteer so proceed with caution.
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