then you'd want to upgrade to urethane anti-sway bar bushings.....
if your goal is to have as much anti-roll as you can out of your stock front
anti-sway bar,
and to replace the now-soft and pretty warn original anti-sway bar rubber
bushings.  Urethane bushings,

the red ones ......if you can find them.  That would be the way to go.
If I had handy access to some, and they were not too expensive, I'd make
that a standard replacement item on the vans I refurbish.

adjustable anti-sway bars would be the real right way to go if fitting
aftermarket ones. If anyone makes such a thing.
Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Lail" <wklail@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 3:08 PM
Subject: sway bar bushings

> I've notices some discussion about sway bars recently.  I assume that
> both the Addco and Empi (and others) will improve handling.  However,
> I wonder how much handling could be improved if we just replaced the
> bushings on the existing front sway bar.  My bushings seem to look
> okay, but they're old and probably worn.  They look to be fairly easy
> to replace.  Has anyone done this, and does it appreciably improve
> handling?
>
> TIA,
>
> Warren in Santa Fe
> 88 Westy "Billy Bones"