Sway bar questions

Helping someone with a lowered Ford Ranger that has the I beam front suspension. It has a set of dropped beams and a set of drop front coil springs as well. It looks like it gave the truck about 5" of static drop. The front sway bar was removed and now he wants to put it back on. With it reinstalled and the truck sitting on the ground at ride height, there is about 1" of clearance between the sway bar and the steering linkage where it crosses to go back to the sway bar links.

So I am having a problem "seeing" what is going to happen when everything starts to move when driving. Since the sway bar is attached to the beam and the tie rod is attached to the spindle on each side, do they move at the same rate and maintain that 1" of clearance? I dont want to have the two bind up in a corner and have him loose steering control. I may be able to lengthen the sway bar links and gain some clearance. Not sure how much before it interferes with something else or the sway bar is twisted up and out of level.