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Originally Posted by Transamric
On some '70 Trans Ams having smaller, Formula sway bars,....I recall Giles had done some research on this, & at the time, IIRC, he'd found that only some Van Nuys TA's got built with the smaller bars. The belief here, is that for whatever reason, the larger bars did not get sent to Van Nuys in time for some of the TA's production. So rather than hold up the orders, the smaller bars were installed. My 0L106374 has these Formula bars. Interesting to notice that the Build Sheets did not make a distinction whether the TA was built with large or smaller bars. All that I've seen so far just have the same F41 suspension code.
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I have documented several TA's with smaller sway bars myself. I know of one RAIV that was a Norwood car , built after the strike that came with smaller sway bars. Here is my theory. The goal of the production plant was to keep the cars moving. WHen they ran out of the larger bars(maybe delivery delays, third party supplier problems etc)they just used the smaller bars.They fit and would allow the line to keep moving. I had heard at one time these type of problems were supposed to be corrected at the delivering dealer.I have seen,and sure others have, a picture with a TA on a production line that is missing the nose bird. Similar deal,probably ran out of bird decals that day. Keep the line moving and let the delivering dealer correct items like this. We have to remember how inefficent GM was in the 1970's, just like guys who swear a car is incorrect unless all the parts are dated with in 1-2 months of production.. If only GM was that efficient back then. So these cars with incorrect sway bars, is nothing more than a testament to GM's sloppy parts ordering,they ran out and used what would keep the line moving...