Sway bar diameter?

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Yeret

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I'm going to install a steering box stabilizer kit on my truck and after taking a a look underneath, I noticed that my sway bar bushings are pretty much toast.

As such, I want to replace them, but after looking at my local O'Reilly's, apparently there are 5 options for sway bar thickness: 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34mm.

Well, I reckon the best thing to do is to just measure the ID of one of the bushings and buy what I need from there, but I'm curious...

How thick of a front sway bar were our trucks typically equipped with? And is there a difference between 4WD and 2WD?
 

dodge dude94

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Take a dial caliper and measure the diameter of the bar. And I have no clue
 

Magnum5.9

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I did what dd94 said and I believe I came out with 33 or just under and mine is an 01 4x4 5.9.

I would think you could order slightly small or larger and be just fine when you tighten it down
 

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+1 to what DD94 posted measure it.
 
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