I seen a article on here about how to install a rear sway bar on a maverick, and it said you could buy a kit with everything in it. My question is is there any other cars that share the same sway bar that is included in the kit? I'll put out the money to buy the kit, but it'd be nice if I could go to the junkyard, and get a sway bar that I could use to haha
If you can visualize and fab some you can make things fit where others say you can't. When I get closer to needing them, I plan to look for a suitable donor.
That bar in the photo is nothing like the Addco bar. And good luck finding a front or rear bar off a Mustang GT or GT350. Some later-model Mavericks had an optional 7/8" front bar, which is where mine came from.
I don't think Addco makes the 1/2" sway bar anymore, only the 7/8" bar (which is, in my book, way too big for our car with a leaf springs at high speed). According to the Master Parts Catalog...All year Mavericks came with the "Heavy Duty" 7/8" front bar option. What is more interesting...the 71-72 V8 Mavericks got a 5/8" bar and the '71-'72 6 cylinder Mavericks got a larger 11/16" bar as standard duty. http://www.dixiemaverick.com/DMswaybar.html
That catalog is wrong then. The standard front bar for all Mavericks is 3/4", and the optional (late model) bar was 13/16" or 7/8" (mine really appears to be 7/8", and came off a big-bumper Maverick with a V-8 & A/C.). The Addco rear bar is 3/4".
I highly doubt the catalog is wrong. I been looking for a 7/8" bar for many of years. Only one I been able to find was damaged. The rest of the sway bars measure 11/16" and very few 5/8". I have yet to see a 3/4" or 13/16" sway bar on a Maverick. Pic on left is from a 71 V8 4-door and the pic on right is from my 74 250-six.
My original front bar was 3/4", and the one on it now is a factory 7/8" from the Maverick I previously mentioned. Catalogs have been wrong in the past. It can happen.
