Sway Bar yes or no

I8NEMO said

Funny, I called Summit for part number assurance on ANY sway bar, he gave me QA1, talked to QA1, guy said no sway bar will work on QA1 LCA's without buying the QA1 K member, but I get what your saying, the Hellwig or Hotchkis are both "close enough" I don't suppose you know the Hotchkis PN? Thanks for your help!

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The guy is wrong. I have gone around more than once with other people here saying the same thing. They are also wrong. The tab location on the QA1 LCA’s is basically the same as on the factory 73+ LCA’s with tabs. My Duster has a 73+ Hotchkis bar with the QA1’s and it fits great. I had to shorten the end links like I already mentioned because of the profile height difference, but the lateral location is the same. The 67-72 Hotchkis bar uses the same tab location as the 73+ hotchkis bar (I have both, with one for each of my A’s). Which means, it also fits. This is very close to the same as the Hellwig 55917 bar. If you think about that, it means all should work with the QA1 LCA’s if you’re willing to alter the end links.

But you don’t have to take my word for it, because other members have now DONE IT. This thread addresses all the claims made about them not fitting, and all the pictures from members that have since shown that it works just fine. As in, the tabs are located just as accurately for those bars as anything factory ever was. The finished examples are on the later pages.

Hotchkis TVS with QA1 lower control arms

Part number for the Hotchkis bar is 22385F.