What are they for?

Second thing was on the each end of the axle housing. There were brackets bolted on with mounting pins like on the ends of 3 point implements. What are these for?

THANK YOU for calling them "Sway Bars". I thought I was the only one that called them that. Without trying to stir up yet another hot-topic, it seems that so many people get the sway bars confused with the stabilizer bars that run from the hitch pins to the toplink rocker.

When you refer to them as "Sway Bars" and "Stay-Bars" it kinda makes it hard to get them confused by way of the fact that if they aren't the anti-sway bars then they must be the vertical stabilizer bars. I always liked this nomenclature as it seemed to be best at eliminating confusion.

Anyway, YES, they are very handy and useful. It also seems that no one has mentioned that there are TWO cotter-pin weep holes under the tranny...The one up front tells you if your rear main seal is leaking and there is a second one further back that tells you if your transmission input shaft seal is leaking.

Jeb

Just another invention from the creators of our wonderful little Fords.

Scott

Whew.... "sway" would be a lot easier to type.

Those brackets on the rear axle? They mounted with the fender bolts? Those are for stabilizer bars out to the impliment lower link pins so the impliment doesn't go side to side on turns or inclines.