Date:         Wed, 10 Jul 96 18:37:52 EDT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         jag@cs.rochester.edu
Subject:      Bone yards near upstate NY? Need sway bar ('82 vanagon).


The front sway bar on my '82 Westy is broken. The link next to
the passenger side wheel snapped next to where it bolts on.
I was hoping to find a used sway bar from a parts van. It looks
as I only need to unbolt the tosion bar, and the left and right
side links. 

Where can I get the sway bar? Anybody knows of any bone yards
with vw's near upstate NY (I'm in Rochester)? And how much
should I expect to pay in an unbolt-it-yourself place?

(Sorry, no experience with junkyards here yet, and no luck with
random calling to places listed in the yellowpages. In Sweden
this would have been a non-problem, since vanagons are plentiful there)

Is the sway bar needed on the vanagons? My front wheels seem 
misaligned (wears inside of tires more -> toe out, right?),
but other than that, I haven't noticed any problems. Should I expect
any problems if I just unbolt the broken sway bar and do the
wheel alignment?

/Martin