Rear sway bar... is this going to work?

[davepl]

I picked up a rear sway bar for my '70 402 Longhorn from LMC. Although it was listed for 3/4T with leaf springs, I'm pretty sure it's just a universal unit.

With the truck on the lift and the rear axle all the way down, there's no way the end links could or would reach all the way up to the frame. As you can see in the photo below, I had to mount the sway bar mounts almost -on top- of the axle for them to even have a hope of reaching.

Once the truck's on the ground at ride height, I'll try to adjust it to get the trailing arms of the sway bar about horizontal, but I'm wondering if this thing is going to do its job at all with the mounts in the location I have them. I can't really see why not, but it's definitely not how it was intended to work.

My other option, and perhaps a better one, would be to move the mounts down and fabricate my own end links if I can find the right size bolt and some tubing to use. That's probably my preferred result, but I'm getting weary of having to fabricate every time I buy a non-GM part (OK, whining over).