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Subject:Re: Addco anti-sway bars: Best Price is PST G-Max (renamed Addco...)
From:Tom Miller
Date:Wed, 26 May 2004 12:30:13 -0400

Not to defend Addco or PST, but you are suppose to use your old hardware and
just insert the new bushing.
TEMiller

----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Stanhope" <napszeerf@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: Addco anti-sway bars: Best Price is PST G-Max (renamed
Addco...)

> Id  say if anything, the front Addco/PST is TOO stiff
> and makes the van jerk around at higher speeds when
> you need to change lanes. the front one IS
> thicker+stiffer than a stock westy bar, but the
> hardware it comes with is crap and doesnt fit well. i
> had to machine out one of the bar's holes just to fit
> the hardware that the kit CAME with!! and the sales
> guy at PST acted like it wasnt a big deal! I'd say the
> front PST bar is a bit too stiff IMO. rear pst bar
> needs to drill into your frame to fit 'L'-brackets,
> hard to do if you dont have pics as both sides are
> different AND the bracket comes REALLY close to the
> lower swing arm. i hope along with the name change
> they improved the
> one-page, 1950's-typewriter written instuctions that
> the kits come with.
>
> Phil 84 westy Tiico'ed
>
>
> --- Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > So INYHO, the Addco front bar adds an even greater
> > measure of control than
> > with just the rear bar alone?
> >
> > Robert K
> > 1982 Westfalia rear Addco
>
>
>
>
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