Yellow sway bar

[strangethursday]

I was at the wrecking yard yesterday & found a 73 with a yellow rear sway bar. Who makes their's yellow? I'm tryin to figure out what it is.

[Montezuma]

I think ST made them yellow 15 years ago.

[hls30.com]

Yellow suspension components were also sold by Interpart.

Will

[jmortensen]

A picture would be the best way, even them there are a lot of similarities between the different manufacturers.

The best design for a 240 mounts the bar behind the diff on the suspension uprights. If it is mounted in front of the diff I wouldn't bother.

[gogriz91]

My ST is yellow, although the one on the front is white?

[bpilati]

A picture would be the best way, even them there are a lot of similarities between the different manufacturers.

The best design for a 240 mounts the bar behind the diff on the suspension uprights. If it is mounted in front of the diff I wouldn't bother.

Funny, my Z technician prefers the forward mount like the 280Z. Mine is a Suspension Techniques and is rear mounted. He claims that occasionally the half-shafts will contact the rear mounted rear sway bar, but I have seen no indication of that.

[texasz]

There is always the possibility that the previous owner had it painted/powdercoated yellow. Just something to keep in mind.

[jmortensen]

Funny, my Z technician prefers the forward mount like the 280Z. Mine is a Suspension Techniques and is rear mounted. He claims that occasionally the half-shafts will contact the rear mounted rear sway bar, but I have seen no indication of that.

The 280s are made for a front mounted bar and have a mount which hangs down below the frame rail. The 240s do not. When I pulled my rear MSA bar off which mounted in front of the diff, it was binding BIG TIME on the frame rail. I think that if the mount had been down lower this wouldn't have been an issue, but I haven't checked on a 280 to verify this. I know John Coffey tells people to use the rear mounted bar on 280s as well, I don't know if he came to this conclusion through trial and error or what, but if it involves Z suspension and he has an opinion it tends to be right.

If you have a ST 240 rear bar and you use the supplied end links, the rear mounted bar shouldn't hit the half shafts, at least I haven't heard of it. What can happen is that the bar can bind on the uprights behind the diff. This is easy to fix by spacing the bar back 1/2". That's the only issue that I'm aware of with the rear mounted bar.

I got pretty hung up on making the swaybar adjustable, strengthening the front frame rail, and getting it as friction free as possible and came up with this: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=105596

[strangethursday]

Thanks. It goes behind the diff to the rear of the car. If you saw this car you'd seriously doubt the PO painted or coated this.