Front Stabilizer Bar Bushings

No worries. It's as you said pretty straight forward. I believe when I did mine I attached the links loosely first and then swung the bar up to the crossmember. Then I tightened everything with the car on the ground. Also my half ball bushings were poly so I put some white lithium grease on them.

Thanks for the info.

The pin end on the bar looks a little too shiny.....think that the installers 'cleaned up' the ends enough to reduce their diameter????
Having one of these ends come off at speed is NO fun !!!!

They just cut off the inner sleeves (stuck on the ends of the sway bar) which had worked loose from the old, cruddy bushing. I'm certain they didn't shave it down at all--the metal washer fits snugly.

I'm wondering if there are differences among the bushing inner sleeves wrt diameter. I am assuming this is a stock sway bar for a Super but I don't know for sure.

Could be the difference between a 'snug' fit and a 'pressed' fit, only a few 1,000's of an inch.

After contacting Joe at Centerline about whether I had the correct bushings, he emailed that Alfa sway bars have been known to have some variability and recommended peening the applicable ends of the bar to achieve a secure bushing attachment. As well, Julio @Milano recommened using a punch at several points around the ends to disrupt the surface enough to achieve fit.

I tried the punch (with BFH) and it seems to have worked. The driver side link/bushing went on (used the old bushing center sleeve to punch it on) extremely tightly with minimal movement. The passenger side has some axial movement (but no lateral movement).

Bottom line: everything stitched back together and it looks right and tight. However, nothing like a test drive to verify--will do that tomorrow.

Thanks for replies--hopefully my situation can help someone out should they run across the same problem.