I decided to pull the sway bar bushings and link hardware off my '95 V6 car (they are past due by now). I've had an issue getting the correct rear sway bar bushings for this car. The rear sway bars on the V6s are 17mm, but everyone has them down as 19mm. The GM parts manual, the parts from ACDelco, Rockauto, etc. I have no idea what the original part number for 17mm bushings should be.

So after looking at choices, I bought some 17mm Prothane bushings that have the correct bolt spacing. What I got is in the picture below. It was hard to tell scale from product pictures online, but these universal bushings are tiny in comparison. I don't know that the Energy or Moog brand ones I also considered would be any larger. Is it even worth trying to use something like this?

 

the prothane is harder and allows less flex so are smaller. have you considered looking around to see if used v8 sway bars can be found in your area for cheap. they would stiffen up the sway and help handling.

 

You can't compare the two by looking at the ends. I can see that the original rubber bushings have much more of a raised lip than those urethane ones have. Those will work just fine.

 

Yeah, I went ahead and used them. The older rubber ones may have a lip, but they are still bigger as the Prothane ones are too small for the original brackets.

I'm interested in the V8 sway bar idea...getting a 19mm. I wish GM would have just put the same bar on the standard V6 and Z28 models, like the erroneous parts manual states.