Rear Swaybar Installation Tips

[Danno1985]

Those hard lines were routed the same way for disc and drum. That should not be an issue.

However, you have just made me realize I paid absolutely no attention to my brake lines when I installed my rear sway bar a few weeks ago.

Hmm...
This job is definitely turning out to be more frustrating than I expected. The hard lines on the passenger side are on the back side of the axle and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get the bracket on that side tightened without putting pressure on the lines. Maybe I'll give it one more crack another day, but the idea of having brake lines inside the brackets doesn't really sit well with me, and I can't really see another way to do it without running into that issue.

 

[adsm08]

I ran out and looked at mine. Apparently when I made my lines I left a nice big flare away from the axle right where the U-bolt needed to go.

 

[sgtsandman]

Welp, one more update/hurdle that didn't occur to me right away: my truck has rear discs. I don't think there's a way to do the brackets without pinching a brake line. Mine just has way too much going on on the top of the axle. I think I'm officially throwing in the towel. Oh well.

On the one side, I did have to tweak the brake line a bit to get the axle brackets to fix.