How to Adjust Ankey Sway Bar?

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Jul 2, 2011 | 01:35 PM

124Spider

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How to Adjust Ankey Sway Bar?

I just put in an Ankeny bar, to replace my Gendron bar. The principal sales point to me was the ease of adjustment.

But now that I have it in, I have no idea what rotating the blades does in the way of adjustment, or why.

Can anyone here fill me in?

Thanks.

Mark

Jul 2, 2011 | 02:04 PM

petawabit

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imagine a diving board and see how flexible it is when you jump on the flat side. now turn it sideways and jump on the narrow edge and see how flexible it is now.at least how i view it.

Jul 2, 2011 | 04:06 PM

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imagine a diving board and see how flexible it is when you jump on the flat side. now turn it sideways and jump on the narrow edge and see how flexible it is now.at least how i view it.

Got it; thanks!

Jul 2, 2011 | 05:13 PM

poorb0yw

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Out of curiosity, how much are these double bladed bars?

Jul 2, 2011 | 07:40 PM

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Out of curiosity, how much are these double bladed bars?

Around $1000.

Jul 4, 2011 | 01:24 PM

SumAznGuy

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From: Hongcouver or Gangcouver?

I've had my ARE bar for 2 winters now. My only advice is lots of anti-seize on the bolts and blades.
Right now, I can only adjust one of the 2 blades. Both were seized but I was able to free one of them with my primitive hand tools and lots of WD40. Will work on the other one after Packwood NT/Pro when the car goes back into storage for another winter.