Date:         Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:30:04 -0800
Reply-To:     Jon Elerath <jelerath@HOME.COM>
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From:         Jon Elerath <jelerath@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: [oletrucks] General Sway bar question
Comments: To: Holly and Chris Mills <scmills@tntech.edu>,
          914@rennlist.org, honda-crv@egroups.com, hooligan_racing@topica.com,
          passat@blaze.cs.jhu.edu, vintagvw@sjsuvm1.sjsu.edu, type2@type2.com,
          old-chevy-truck@egroups.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net,
          virtualvairs@skiblack.com, volkswagen-general@theautobahn.com,
          mercedes-general@theautobahn.com
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Sway bars are definitely NOT electrical conduit.  They are solid steel bars
that are tempered, just as any spring.  Conduit has virtually no spring
properties and no strength.  Don't even begin to try to fabricate one from
conduit.

(Did I just fall for a different version of the "air cooled brake lines"
question?)

Jon
'53 3100
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 11:31 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] General Sway bar question


> In some of the books on my shelf and I think in some of my old catalogs,
> the sways look like they are simply made from varying sizes of steel
> electrical conduit.
>
> Am I seeing things?
>
> Seems like a cheap sway bar for some applications!
>
>
> CHRIS in Tennessee
> scmills@tntech.edu
> ICQ: 5944649
>
> '78 VW Westfalia (maybe some CIS injection,Corvair, turbos --- maybe I'm
> just dreaming.....)
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> '99 CR-V 5 speed
> '49 Chevy 3100 Pickup
> '81 Honda CB900C
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