Model A sway bar

[glenn in camino]

My deluxe delivery seems a little top heavy when loaded for a long trip. Is there a sway bar for a Model A rear end?

[SeaSlugs]

well modern vehicles with solid rear wheel drive axles have rear swaybars, but they have "normal" rear leaf spring setups...

[Pete]

Sway bars or sometimes known as Panhard bars have been available for early Fords since the late 40's.
You do need to match the spring rate to the load you are carrying also.

[Tom Endy]

Glenn:

Contact Jim Nichols at his shop 714-546-2969. I have seen some he has installed on customer's cars in the past.

Tom Endy

[updraught]

Sounds like your shocks are a bit mushy. On a swerve the shocks initially support the load. The shocks then lose tension (as the oil squirts from one chamber to the other). When the shocks let go then the springs (and sway bar if fitted) support the load.

May be start with modern adjustable shocks? If you are carrying a bit of weight make sure the mounting points of the shocks and or sway bar, and sway bar links are robust

[Mitch//pa]

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Originally Posted by SeaSlugs

well modern vehicles with solid rear wheel drive axles have rear swaybars, but they have "normal" rear leaf spring setups...

And so do modern vehicles with independent rear suspension's both with and without half shafts as well as rear coil straight beam diffs

[d.j. moordigian]

Sway bar or Panhard bar ?.....there is a difference..

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by d.j. moordigian

Sway bar or Panhard bar ?.....there is a difference..

Find a DYNA- PANHARD in a wrecking yard & steal its' BARS
SA Bill W.

[d.j. moordigian]

Boy!.......had too look that one up Willie.......lol

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by d.j. moordigian

Boy!.......had too look that one up Willie.......lol

Worked on one, d.j, Has HCLM, hydraulic constant lash mechanism & torsion bars for valve springs. Fitted an Austin Healy exhaust valve to it ! This was when I worked at the FIRST Citroen Dealership, in Fresno. I've worked on lots of WEIRD cars, even a HUMBER-SUPER SNIPE
Willy Bill

[d.j. moordigian]

LOL,..................you know I worked on the same Humber Super Snipe..

[Bruce Lancaster]

Sway is lateral movement of the body over the wheels, essentially parallel to ground...cure is anti-sway bar, usually embodied in the simplest form as a Panhard bar.
Roll is the axial rotation of the body, call it leaning, over the wheels, requiring an antiroll bar...generally the U-shaped things that all the semi experts writing in magazines call a sway bar, quite incorrectly.
Roll and sway in the real world generally happen together.
Stock anti-sway tech in an early Ford is handled by shackle angle and general resistance in that area.
Anti-roll is controlled by the relatively wide rear spring and wide front spring, wide here meaning in relationship to where the more commonly used parallel leaf springs would have been in the 1930's.
Model A front is wider than the parallel mounts because it is placed where it can't get in the way of steering action of wheels, rear is wider still because it runs out almost to the end of the axle.
Defects to look for are sagging springs forcing shackles to hang near vertical, springs not solidly located by center bolt in crossmember and not very firmly clamped in by tight U bolts.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Originally Posted by d.j. moordigian

LOL,..................you know I worked on the same Humber Super Snipe..

Small world, Dudley---It was British Racing Green, with Brown Leather interior & Borg Warner, 3 band Automatic. I remember this, as I had to replace the MISSING OIL TRANSFER TUBE, from the trans to the convertor
Willy Bill

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Glen,
If you would consider this, TUBE shocks would help IMMENSELY.
Bill W.