971 sway bars

[Greg NE]

Does anyone happen to know the length of the flat bar sway bars for the factory pins on the 3 point on a 971 and the distance between the holes and what the angle of the bends on the ends may be? I'd like to build a set for a tractor I"m fixing up and haven"t found any in my area to measure. Thanks in advance Greg NE

 

[terry l anderson]

I have some I could measure when I get home. I'm gone driving truck for the next week or so. E-mail your address if you want.

 

[Vito]

I have a set.The measurements in the picture are pretty close.If you need one traced just let me know.Email is open.

Vito

 

[johnw (OR)]

Send me your email I'll send youi the plans Chris Britton sent me. John

 

[souNdguy]

if those original measurements i sent john don't work fo you you can aslo cheat and make up a set of drop sway points like I did in a hurry one day ffor my 4000 rowcrop.

not a pretty.. but they work..

 

[Lynn Patrick]

(quoted from post at 14:09:22 03/12/13) if those original measurements i sent john don't work fo you you can aslo cheat and make up a set of drop sway points like I did in a hurry one day ffor my 4000 rowcrop.

not a pretty.. but they work..

Soundguy, you don't happen to have a drawing w/measurements for those do you? That's exactly what I want to make!
Lynn

 

[Greg NE]

Thanks for all the info guys, the set that Vito showed are the type I was looking for. Now I have to get off my butt and get at making a set while I'm waiting to get all my parts back from the machine shop and my parts guy. Thanks again Greg NE

 

[NWMO 901 SOS]

(quoted from post at 09:54:47 03/12/13) Thanks for all the info guys, the set that Vito showed are the type I was looking for. Now I have to get off my butt and get at making a set while I'm waiting to get all my parts back from the machine shop and my parts guy. Thanks again Greg NE

Greg,

I looked into those a few years back and was going to make a pair. After talking with Dave Hobbs, he found a pair for me from Colfax Tractor Salvage (where he worked at the time) for about the same money I thought I might have in buiding a set. Colfax is just east of Des Moines, might give them call and see what they have.

Chris

PS - some of the best $$ I've spent, they are nice to have.

 

[Greg NE]

I may have to do a little more checking around but I'm "lucky" to work at a large steel mfg. co. that does a wide range work and can get the steel for around 20 cents a pound and I can drill the holes and bend the ends at home or work- if it doesn't take me too long. Like the old saying goes (more time then money). Thanks for the lead. Greg NE

 

[Kirk-NJ]

Here's a drawing of the inner sway bars

Kirk

 

[souNdguy]

offhand I don't.. but that can be easilly remidied when I get a day off work.

I'll tell ya how I made them.

I had a set of those repop under fender brackets like a ag chassis would use, and I bolted one on finger tight. I then located a couple cutoff 1.5' pieces of ? 3" angle iron scrap in the pile .. probably came from scrapping out a old flatbed trialer.. etc.. anyway, using vice grips I clamped the flat of the angle to the bracket. i then took a piece of rebar and lined it up with the pivot point of the lower lift arm and used chalk to make a mark on the hanging portion of my angle iron. also chalk marked the location of the angle to the bracket... left everything vice gripepd together.. ran the nuts off.. that lower mark is where I drilled a hole for the nub that holds the sway bar.. .. i then torch3ed it off under that point and smoothed it a bit with the grinder.

welded the angle to the bracket.. then torched an angle on a little bit of the drop.

painted it.. and bolted it on.. with the nub and hun my bars.

works great on a 5' mower and other implements I use. getting that lower nub in line with the lower lift arm center of pivot is the key.

I'll get you the measuremant of my drop piece so you have a start for looking for scrap.. and then all you have to do is eyeball it up and tack together.

 

[Lynn Patrick]

Thanks! And I'm looking forward to the measurments. I have a homemade set of the "inner" ones like above, but the longer "outer" ones work a lot easier!
Lynn

 

[souNdguy]

measured it las night.

from the axle pad where you could bolt the regular nder fender brackets.. to the center of the pin that should be in the same plane as the center of the pin on them lower lift arms looks like 9 3/4"