So I know between 42-48, Ford cars had Panhard bars front and rear, but I don't know what years. Can you guys tell me what years. I'm looking to use panhard bars and the sway bar on my next car. I've got the wishbone with mount for the Panhard bar, and the sway bar, but no Panhard bars. I realise they are easy to fabricate, I would just like to use Ford parts. Cheers, Stewart.
Certainly '46-8, anti-sway front and rear. I've never glanced under a '42, but they MAY have not used the anti sway. Dim parts book memory, too lazy to lookitup. All needed the front and rear Panhard, though, due to the design change to long shackles designed to carry the weight while the bars eliminated side sway.
No rear sway bar that I'm aware of. My 1948 Merc has panhard bars front and rear as well as a front sway bar. Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
Sway is what panhard bars control...pure sway is sideways motion of car over wheels. The typical "sway bar," the U-shaped torsion bar connecting front sides as on a '48 Ford, controls ROLL, the tilting movement that lowers one side of car and raises other while cornering. Totally different motions, though they often occur together to add excitement to your cornering. Panhard bar is most common anti-sway piece and the U-bars are most common anti-roll. Ford and Lincoln circa 1940 tried a variety of dual purpose bars (sort of the U shaped type, but with rigid links) to do both but dropped the idea. "Sway bar" became a permanent nonsense term confusing suspension thought since the magazines started using the term.
Its funny because where I'm from, UK, we call them anti-roll bars, not sway bars. Guess I've become Americanized! Cheers, Stewart.
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