Sway bars for '60-62: I DID IT!! Woo-Hoo!

[Brad54]

For those of us who have '60-62 trucks, we know there are no sway bars available for them.

Until fairly recently, there were no drop spindles, disk brake kits or even dual reservoir conversions.

I've tried three times in the last 5 years to have sway bars made for our trucks. Yesterday, while picking up an order of 50 bars for '54-'56 Buicks (another project I've been working on), we finally did the final prototype for sway bars for our T-bar trucks.
1 1/8-inch, only four holes to drill in the frame rails, and it seems to clear everything--no small feat given the tight turning radius of these trucks.
I drove the prototype home over 250 miles yesterday, and have run around town a bit in it today... damn, talk about a night-and-day difference in handling!

This is with the t-bars cranked down to lower the front of the truck a couple inches.
Hopefully next week I'll be ordering the rest of the front suspension rebuild parts I need (I've been picking up bits whenever I can find them cheap... like $50 for a pair of ball joints rather than $125 EACH, etc), plus a pair of drop spindles and disc brakes, and will be doing the full rebuild and conversion.
This will make sure everything clears stock rebuilt trucks, trucks with the T-bars cranked and stock spindles, and trucks with the suspension in the stock location using drop spindles and disc brakes.

The plan is to have sway bars for sale by the Fall... That's business.
But as an enthusiast, I'm so thrilled with this upgrade, and so happy it finally came together after more than 5 years of false starts, I had to share!

-Brad