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I found a 1984 1ton dually f350 in the yard today. It has a very nice sway bar on it front and rear. Can someone tell me if that will fit my 1976 SuperCab. I really want a sway bars on my truck. My truck dives into corners pretty bad. Thanks for the continued help. LEE
It's a 2wd dually. The one on the truck looks nothing like yours. It connects to the IBeams with a "S" shaped linkage. Not a sway bar link like yours. For $20 I was hoping it would work. LEE
They did have a sway bar that mounted to the individual beings in the back of the radius arms on there I'm assuming that your dually has I beams, two of them as opposed to one big beam solid beam across it. it might be something afterMarket. I'm not really quite sure the 250 is in the350s that I have have had the same set up if they have dual I beams. Pics would help though.
The sway bar looks just like yours. I found it in a junk yard and didn't have any tools with me. I was killing time before a work meeting. I used a tree limb to kinda get a measurement between frame rails. Haven't checked on my truck yet. My 76 is a 1/2 ton SC. Not a dually. Just trying to stiffin up the front end. But for $20 I might go get it and take a chance. LEE
But it would be a lot of work to get it off and not work!!!!!
Again is the dually twin I-beam? If so not an expert but if it's similar to mine, but behind the twin I-BEAM I would say aftermarket, could be wrong, I say post pics so we can decipher
He mentioned that these were mounted behind the i-beams they did make one that was similar to that but it was on the earlier trucks but it was just a bar that went from one being to the other did not have any s style brackets or links if the one that you are looking at looks just like mine and mine does have those S links if you look at these pictures than it should fit
This is the bracket, do not pay attention to the welded piece that is on the left side that's for another modification that I did to it. But that is what the bracket looks like. You have to have both the left and the right so that you can make your sway bars work without them everything else is useless because there is no way to mount them onto the radius arms. Like stated above you basically have to disassemble both I beams completely at the front. So removal of the spring and then the Big Bolt that holds everything together, is a must for you to remove those brackets.
The forward-mounted 1-1/8" diameter swaybar was optionally available on any '75-'79 F100 through F350. 2WD front swaybar not the same as one for a 4WD.
The '75-'79 front swaybar will bolt up to any '65-'79 F100-F350 truck, since the front frame rail width on all these are the same.
The 'C-brackets' have only one component number (5C499 in illustration below), meaning there isn't a left and right hand endlink bracket. It is simply flipped over, depending on what side it's being installed on for the locating pin to engage into the notch at the forward end of the radius arms --notch is located on the lower end of the right side radius arm and at the top on the left radius arm. --the radius arms are also not side specific. They will work on either side by simply flipping them over too. Only the lower shock mounting brackets attached to the radius arms are side specific, left side and right side.
'65-'73 radius arms are cast steel and don't have any material protruding off the forward ends for the pin on the C-brackets to engage into.
'74 model trucks went to the stamped steel radius arms. However, the forward ends aren't notched for accepting the locating pins on the C-brackets but, the '74 stamped steel radius arms can be notched, as I did to these '74 model radius arms.
'75-'79 F100-F350s will have the notches in the forward ends of the radius arms whether the truck came with a factory swaybar or not.
'78 F250 Camper Special factory front swaybar on my '69 F100 (I have a disc brake front suspension from a '77 F100).
....rear swaybar I installed on my '69 F100 from a '79 Bronco.
Pretty much what ultra wrote, but one thing, not all arms have the notch, he showed you how to fix that, I had to replace an arm as the original bent a bit and had no notches. I just used a HF grinder and disc it radiused it the other thing is that the actual bracket maybe the part same part number I'll have to try see if I have some more pictures on there cuz I did this a few months ago and I don't know if I've deleted those already but my brackets one of them had an R and the other had an L so they were side specific probably so that you wouldn't mess up but they were marked that way, as the ears point in a specific direction. Or knowing Ford maybe mine were some oddball ones that got stamped. I just went thru this on the front on my 2wdF-250 and the rear on my son's 4x4 F100 last week. Pictured here.
For comparison you can see how different the 4x4 version is, it also had to be modified as it's on the son 75 F100 that never came with swaybar. These are adapted from the same 79 Bronco donors as the rear set up.
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