Friday June 27th I went to Marlon’s Frame and Alignment in Chatsworth Ca. to have new sway bars put on my mustang.

Miles Cook, one of the editors of Mustang Monthly was there to do an article on it to put in next months issue of the magazine. It was an awesome day, here is Miles getting started…

Here I am with the old and new sway bars…as you can see the old ones are not very strong looking at all. To be honest, they did almost nothing…

Here is the set of new sway bars and accompanying parts…

I am a “hands on” kind of girl. Fortunately the guys at the shop let me get in on the action and take pictures AND ask questions about what was going on, pretty much every step of the way. It is VERY important to me to be able to do work on my own car and learn as much as possible. Here you can see Miles setting up his camera to photograph the installation…

I am joining Brian under the Mustang while Bill assembles parts, and Miles takes pictures of the process for the article.

Installing sway bars is a pretty simple task. It basically involves mounting the bar onto some brackets and then mounting the brackets onto the undercarriage of the car. A really good sway ( actually anti – sway) bar means a world of difference to how your car handles. I am having sway bars made by “Traction Master Company” in Burbank, California installed today www.tractionmaster.com Traction Masters actually donated their bars to my 1965 Mustang FOR the magazine article ( THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!). Traction master company has been around since 1950 and they are located in MY hometown. Their sway bars are solid strong and reliable. Visit their site to see how the bars are made and how they work .
You have to put a bushing on which has liquid Teflon coating on the inside between the bar and the bracket. This protects the sway bar.

To mount the brackets you have to drill holes… this only takes a couple minutes…

Here Bill is drilling holes to mount the brackets while Miles is photographing for the story.

We got the first bar done in a relatively short time…

You gotta love “auto shop décor”…

When we finished the sway bars, we put new shocks in my mustang. Fortunately the shop had some extra KYB shocks. KYB shocks are strong enough that I can’t push them down with my own weight, therefore I like them. My old shocks I could push in with both arms. Since I am not “that” strong – this gives you an idea of how SHOT they were. Here is a picture of me holding my old rear shocks which I was NOT happy with.





In order to put the rear shock in we had to pull out my back seat. Once we got the shocks in, I had to jump in the trunk to push from the back to help them reassemble….

We were done with the shocks in no time.
The drive home was awesome! I had so much fun! I felt safer and as a result I could drive more comfortably and with more confidence. It handles like a dream now, stable, strong and solid. THANKS TO MARLON, BILL, BRIAN AND MILES.