Front swaybar repositioning ?

[wrightyonline]

Hi all, as there is a wealth of knowledge on here that has served me well on all my problems so far with my uk Ex, I was hoping I could get some help with my swaybar ?
After lots of searching and researching I decided to do the bushings on the front sway bar and ordered a set of greaseable energy suspension units. Problem I have is that I have the 36mm bar mounted to the crossmember( vertical), the new brackets don't quite match the oem mounting holes ! Can I do either of the following,

1, cut the bottom bracket hole so it's a slot in order to get the bolts to go into the eom position or,
2, drill out and weld captive nuts/ rivnut the frame so I can mount the sway bar on the frame ( horizontally) like the later design, I'm not sure if the later design used a longer sway bar to get to that position,

And before anyone says to just try and get the brackets changed for correct size done that and got back exactly the same dimensions ? Oh and can't use new bushings in the old brackets as they were falling apart from rust having been here in the uk for 17 years hence changing them so I'm a little stuck right now with the sway bar cable tied up as brackets don't align, sorry for the long post but could do with a quick answer to get this job finished, cheers guy's

Jim

 

[Dono]

I have just slotted the rears that I picked up from energy suspension. I made both sides of the bracket slots, and centered when bolting up. Ive done this with two vehicles and they have been fine.

My only issue with the greasable units on the back is that the shocks are perfectly in the way of the nipples.

 

[wrightyonline]

Cheers Dono , I wasn't sure if slotting was going to be acceptable but I guess it works, that saves me some headache, under the truck once again I go !