RE: [Chrysler300] 300G sway bar bushings

Allan,

I found the kit you mention on MoPar Mall, for ’60-’64 Chrysler Newport, NYer, 300 etc.

https://www.moparmall.com/product-p/360-001_c.htm

That’s the first I’ve seen them offered, other than the one’s in Gary’s catalog.. So you did this without cutting the welds?? Yes, I have a big vice and lots of dish soap and rubber lube, great to hear of someone doing it without cutting and re-welding. Thanks for the tip!

Bob J

From: ALLAN POZDOL <apozdol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 2:51 PM
To: Bob Jasinski <rpjasin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] 300G sway bar bushings

Bob,

I just did these! They do slide in - with difficulty. Do you have a vise in which to squeeze them in? I got them 3/4 of the way in, squeezing them as I went with channel locks, and tightened the vise as I pushed the proud rubber in with a plastic tool. I used liquid dish soap to lube them up. Silicon grease to slide them on the bar.

The rear sway bar bushings were the toughest. I had real difficulty with one: the welding must have been off from the factory. yes, I was cursing out loud on that one!

I blasted and painted everything first, and got the full kit of bushings from Mopar Mall in CA. Even the correct one piece rod to frame bracket bushings! These modern pieces are a lot harder material than the rubber from days of yore.

Allan Pozdol

300 K

On 07/02/2020 4:21 PM 'Bob Jasinski' rpjasin@xxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300] <chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anyone replaced the factory sway bar bushings on a 300G? Gary lists these in his catalog, and I’ve emailed Quirey about availability but have not yet heard back. The only way I see to install these is to cut the welds on the sway bar, remove the old one, lube and slide the new one over the flat ends, reassemble and re-weld. Sure would like to know if anyone else has replaced these and/or know a source to buy them. I can’t imagine it would be easy to cut the welds, get them onto the bar and positioned, then reweld without damaging them. Seems odd that Chrysler would design them so unserviceable, and evidently they were that way through 1965.

Bob J