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Old Mar 13, 2020 | 04:53 PM
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Okay, just want to make sure I have this right. Installing new pfadt adjustable swaybars in the front and rear of my c6. After getting everything mounted and centered, I connect the adjustable links on both side and tighten everything down. Then let the car down to the ground, sit and settle in with a load on. Then loosen one side of the sway bar links, adjust so it goes back together with no pressure. Then do this one the other side and done?
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I connect everything and leave one side loose front and rear. Drop the car, then adjust end links and finish up so that there is no bind

I hope these aren’t pfadty bars
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Pfadt has been out of business for more than a couple of years now, .... Are there sway bars still available ?
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Pfadt has been out of business for more than a couple of years now, .... Are there sway bars still available ?
Yes, through AFE.
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Yes, through AFE.
Yea, they have a make-shift section on the AFE website (AFE supports them now), but I'm not sure how much of the product line is still a go..

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Okay, just want to make sure I have this right. Installing new pfadt adjustable swaybars in the front and rear of my c6. After getting everything mounted and centered, I connect the adjustable links on both side and tighten everything down. Then let the car down to the ground, sit and settle in with a load on. Then loosen one side of the sway bar links, adjust so it goes back together with no pressure. Then do this one the other side and done?
Interested in your selection! What setting are you going to go with? What's your driving application? Do you have any other suspension mods? For reference here is the sway bar stiffness chart published originally by them, not positive but pretty sure this applies to C6 as well:


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AFE offers a wide range of Pfadt’s products for the C6, including their headers, engine and transmission mounts, spherical bushings, coilovers and swaybars, all of which you can access and order directly through their website. I don’t know anything about a makeshift site.
Here’s a link to their swaybar page. You will note that the adjustable race bars still have the Pfadt logo and name:
https://afepower.com/sway-bars-anti-roll-bars
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Hmm interesting, looks like the website has been really updated since the last time I saw, which was with just a few pics, no organization, no links. This is good news!
Nice to know they still vendor some of the popular products.
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