Guest TurboSedan Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 well i bought an Addco bar from SuperBuick a long long time ago. like 2 years ago. i installed it on my car and i loved it - but unfortunately the bar was held up too high with the original Addco hardware - the bar would hit one of the bolts near the center of the car...one of the bolts for those big bars that are on each side of the leaf spring. this eventually caused the passenger side inner hanger to break there are 2 different types of inner hangers you can use with the Addco bar if i remember correctly; one re-uses the stock inner hangers IF your car came with a rear sway bar originally - you just have to modify them i think. the other uses hangers that are included with Addco bars and is used if your car came with NO sway bar. this is the kind i used since my car had no sway bar....and the kind i broke. i hope that makes sense. so i had to take the bar back out and it's been sitting in my garage unused for about a year and a half at least. i went to the salvage yard and got some inner hangers from a '95 Brickyard Monte, but i'm not sure how to mount them???? should i have the inner hanger welded to my frame or should i try to somehow drill holes and bolt them in? does anyone here have Addco inner hangers they are not using?...the type that is used for cars with no original sway bar? i think i could get those to work if i just add a spacer to them that allows the bar to hang down an inch lower. i really want to get that bar back in there - ecspecially since i can't use the rear STB i got from Justin. any ideas appreciated. i will try to post some pics if that would help. joshua Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihela816 Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 I have the same question, I have a PST bar and was wondering how to mount the stock hangers. The car I got them off had nuts welded onto the inside of the frame rail, but the car without the bar just has holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest TurboSedan Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 well i got some pics of the problem. i didn't want to overload this thread with pics so i simply made links. this is the Addco supplied inner hanger for cars with no OEM swaybar. a U-bolt goes thru the framerail and down thru the two holes in the upper piece: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00860.JPG this is the broken one: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00862.JPG the bar was help up too high with the Addco supplied inner hangers, and the bar hit these two big bolts which caused the hanger to break: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00872.JPG this is the OEM inner hanger from a '95 Monte w/22mm bar (same size as the Addco bar). since the hanger is for the same size bar, no modification will be neccesary to the hanger itself (i hope) altho i would like to get some new poly bushings for them. you can kind of tell it will let the bar hang lower: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00864.JPG these holes in the frame rail are for mounting the OEM swaybar. on cars equipt with an OEM swaybar, there are nuts welded in place for the mounting hardware. unfortunately this is not the case for cars with no OEM swaybar: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00865.JPG http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00866.JPG http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00869.JPG http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00871.JPG this is the '95 Monte inner hanger held in place: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00868.JPG http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00870.JPG this is the passenger side. obviously i'm going to have to move the muffler hanger a little (or better yet new exhaust with pipes that run UNDER the suspension): http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00873.JPG http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00875.JPG no holes on the inner frame rail on the passenger side! oh well a drill will easily fix this problem: http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00874.JPG i plan of mounting the Addco bar using the '95 Monte inner hangers. i'm just going to have to use my own hardware and drill a couple holes in the passenger side frame rail. it would have been nice if the '95 Monte inner hangers bolted right in, but oh well. upon closer inspection i realized that this isn't going to be much of a problem. thanks, joshua BTW: while i was down there with the wheel off i took this pic. i have yet to see any damage caused by the coilovers even after 60,000+ miles of hard use. later this spring i'm going to clean everything and do a closer inspection. http://www.turbosedan.com/DSC00876.JPG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TurboSedan Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 another problem with mounting the '95 Monte inner hangers i have: the hanger will be bolted to the frame with two long bolts that go straight thru the frame rail to nuts on the other side. that part is simple enough. but what do i do about the part of the hanger that is supposed to bolt to the bottom surface of the frame rail?? there is no nut welded in there from the factory, and i can't get to the other side to use a nut....can i spot weld this part of the hanger to the frame rail?? i'm not sure how else i could possibly make this work? if i can't spot weld that part of the bracket to the frame rail i'll need to modify the hanger - and i don't want to do that cuz i have no fabrications skills. anyone have any ideas/suggestions? joshua Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per0781 Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Bump for this cause since I also have no OEM swaybar, and with the Addco rear sway bar group purchase in the works, I will also have the same problem Josh will have. Any ideas for but what do i do about the part of the hanger that is supposed to bolt to the bottom surface of the frame rail?? there is no nut welded in there from the factory, and i can't get to the other side to use a nut....can i spot weld this part of the hanger to the frame rail?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TurboSedan Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Bump for this cause since I also have no OEM swaybar, and with the Addco rear sway bar group purchase in the works, I will also have the same problem Josh will have. Any ideas forbut what do i do about the part of the hanger that is supposed to bolt to the bottom surface of the frame rail?? there is no nut welded in there from the factory, and i can't get to the other side to use a nut....can i spot weld this part of the hanger to the frame rail?? my Addco bar came supplied with 2 sets of inner hangers - 1 set for bars with an OEM swaybar, and another set for use with cars that had no OEM swaybar. i obviously had to use the inner hangers for cars with no OEM bar. the only problem was that it was held up too damn high so the bar itself came into contact with those 2 big bolts in the pic above....stressed it enough to break the inner hanger on the passenger side within a month or so. i'm going to use the same Addco inner hangers again (huge thanks Dave), but i'm going to modify them so the bar will hang about an inch lower. i have a set of inner hangers from a '95 Monte with 22mm bar, so if all else fails i'm going to use the Monte inner hangers and weld them to the frame rail and use them instead of the Addco stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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