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--- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote: > I used to work on a 914 for someone here. They > replaced, I think, 3 > swayaway 914 bars in a row. Each one lasted about a > year. I > wasn't impressed. IIRC, the swayaway bars are not > prestressed, > which means that L & R are the same. This makes it > easier to > make and stock them, but my experience with their > durability was > just very poor. When we took out the broken bars we > also found > that their paint had splintered off of the bar where > it twisted. Yipes!!! If I recall, they do have prestressed bars as well, but I think they list those for racing applications. Aaron ===== -------------------------------------------- 1971 FI AT Squareback http://www.tiserves.com/VW/ vw_variant71@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org