Ok guys so here's the lowdown today.
I actually spent the majority of the day trying to get organized as my "garage" was a mess.
Here, however, is the full story with the sway bar bushings.
As you all know, I ordered what I thought was the right size from Energy Suspension. Wrong! So I went to Advance Auto and bought these (the ones on the left are the incorrect ones):

I was positive they were the correct bushings but guess what: TOO SMALL! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

So back to Advance I went. This time, I brought the sway bar and bushing brackets with me. It turns out this whole time I had measured my sway bar incorrectly. It's a 1 1/4 inch, NOT a 1 inch...... How did I mess this up? A micrometer with a dying battery didn't help, I'll say that much.
Well anyway we actually test fit 1 1/4 inch bushings and they fit like a glove. The only problem is that the factory brackets do not fit the new bushings so I had to use the brackets that came with the bushings. Not a big deal.
I did finally get my sway bar painted:

And installed.

And yet another thing held me up from progress.... I only had 3 out of the 4 bolts to install the bushing brackets. I remember one of them broke clean off and the nut came with it, so off to NAPA I went, a mere 30 minutes before they closed. I needed that, the nut for it, and another random bolt that I lost. So the guy there said $0.72 Ok I go for my wallet and BLARRRGH there's no cash in it! Well he couldn't swipe a debit card for 72 cents so I had to buy something big.
LOL this gave me the perfect excuse to price a new master cylinder. $34 later and I'm out the door with my hardware and this:

I wonder how long it's been sitting on the shelf?

So I get back to the "garage" and start putting the last bracket on and decided I didn't like the look of the old hardware:

So it's a good thing I bought enough bolts to do both sides. Looks MUCH better with the new hardware:

Guess how much fun I had fishing this nut in there...

And well before this hiatus, I had installed new MOOG end links:


My nice clean, painted firewall:

Some random parts I need to sandblast (now minus the master cylinder)

Fender to firewall brackets sandblasted and painted:

Haha it's all coming together nicely:
