sway bar diameter
 

Does anyone know the front sway bar diameter on an '82 GT

I would just measure it if I were you.

I had the same question when I was changing out all my bushings. Seemed to be many sizes to choose from.

Avoid returns and put your trusty calipers to use.

FYI my 1989 is 1.31" .

I believe mine was only 1 1/16, I found this out after buying 86-93 front swaybar bushings which were for a 1 3/16 :mad: measure it before you buy any bushings.

Well, my problem is that I don't have calipers to measure correctly. What I did was took a piece of wire and wrapped around the bar and then measured that. I got a circumference of 3.75 inches. I then took the formula for the the circumference of a circle and transposed it to get the Diameter---D=Pi*D and then got 1.19 inches. So now I am wondering if it's 1 1/16 or 1 1/8 which is closer to what I figured.
This sucks because I don't want to be wrong.
I was going to go with the 1 1/8 measurement until red82GT said that.

You can try your trusty monkey wrench.
Adjust it to fit the bar and then carefully measure without bumping those "extremely accurate" jaws.
Try to measure with at least a six inch scale or something better.

Good Luck,
Dan

FWIW, the later sway bars are bigger... might just swap them out...probably find a free set if you ask around ;-)

Thanks Deez, I was at PST performance website last night and they had an article on how to measure sway bars and they said the same thing you said.
I don't know why I did'n't think of that!

Come to think of it, it was 1 3/16" not 1 1/16" :o the bushings I bought were 1 3/8" not 1 3/16" Sorry about that.

Tonight I measured like Deez said to do with the adjustable wrench and I got about 1-1/16 but I am sure that is not an exact figure. So it's more than likely the same as red82GT's
Dark Knight also gave me a good idea about swapping a set from an 87-93 model.
I guesss since I upgrading the front brakes and rebuilding the front suspension I may as well upgrade the sway bars.

I looked it up
 

Front sway bar is 1.125" which is 1 and an 1/8th
Rear sway bar is .55"


http://www.mustanggt.org/main.htm
I know you can not believe everything that you find on the internet but this is where I found it.

When I was at the parts store I asked the man what all the different sizes where thinking there would be maybe 3 or 4 different sizes that I could compare with my crude measurement method but there was a bunch of different sizes that were made. I know for sure it's either 1-1/8 or 1-3/16