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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:10 am 
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will the el ones fits earlier models?
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:22 am 
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The wagons don't have a rear sway bar stock.. I found one at the wreckers in a wagon.. a kmac one, and took it. Still haven't put it in.. No time.


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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:48 pm 
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EL ones will fit earlier models I believe, but I'm also pretty sure they used the same sizes along the whole E-Series range.

 

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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:11 pm 
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The wagons don't have a rear sway bar stock.. I found one at the wreckers in a wagon.. a kmac one, and took it. Still haven't put it in.. No time.


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So is that fitting a sedan one to the wagon? Hows it fit in?
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:23 am 
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No, it means buying an aftermarket one. Sedan ones won't fit without serious modification. And the wagons are wider.

The one I got was from a wagon(ED I think), but it had aftermarket suspension, including the kmac swaybar that I pinched.

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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:06 pm 
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so the wagons don't come with rear swaybars but kmac make em. i'll give them a call out of iterest next week and find out more.
so any recomendations on what size front sway bar for King Spring lows on the wagon, EL GT or the bigger Whiteline?
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:33 pm 
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Yeah, thats right.

The swaybar size all depends on your needs. Stiffer or stiffest lol.


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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:47 pm 
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Gday twr7cx, I just fitted a sway bar of my old XW sedan to my EF Station Wagon. It is an after market Lovell's kit and fitted straight on, only had to fit brackets to the inside of the chassis rail by drilling and bolting the same as I had to for the XW. Made a huge difference helped with that loose floppy feeling the wagons have. I also made and fitted 25mm lowering blocks looks much better.

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:11 am 
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cool gunna have to find out some more about this.
but that doesn't help me figure out which size is right! :shock:
wagonDad - that to the front or back(the sway bar that is)?
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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:16 am 
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To give you an idea... the back swaybar for mine is actually pretty damn small... its about hlaf the diameter of my front one.. which for this week is stock.



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Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:14 am 
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Front bar on my fairmont wagon is 25mm rear one of the XW is 19mm seems to be doing the job.

 

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