Thread: Time for new rear shocks, need your advice

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Originally Posted by SBC

What keeps a transverse spring setup from rock and rolling left and right, since everything rides on a single pivot point?

Same thing that keeps coilovers from rocking and rolling.

A sway bar - and not a panhard bar as Henry Rifle points out
The panhard bar serves to locate the rear axle transversely.

You would be amazed at the difference in rocking sideways and body lean with coilovers and no sway bar.

The pic shows a Deuce Factory sway bar on my 32.
The 31 on 32 rails car shown above has the same sway bar, but mounted higher and mostly out of sight.
If you look close at the photo in post #11 you'll see the Heim Joints that connect rear axle and sway bar.