When the project CJ-7 was built, the factory swaybar bushings were replaced before the Jeep ever hit the trails.  After a couple of years of offroading in my CJ-7 I was doing one of my post wheeling once over inspections to look for any issues that might have popped up during the last trip.  Looking at the Daystar swaybar bushing, I saw to my surprise, that the bushing brackets had warped and bent.  This past trip prior finding this, I had drove a little with the swaybar connected.  Nothing radical, just some cruising on the rough roads near a lot of cabins, road that average cars can navigate easily. 

I figured I could take a hammer to them and flatten them out again, but chances are they would just bend again.  I knew I had the original brackets still hanging in the garage (I never throw away anything, thus the clutter).  Closer inspection of the factory CJ-7 brackets, I realized that the CJ's brackets were thicker material.  Putting a micrometer to each bracket, I got .11 inch on the Daystar bracket and .16 inch on the stock CJ-7 bracket.  Additionally, the Daystar bracket had an oblong hole on both sides, where as the CJ had a smaller oblong hole on just one site and a single circle hole on the other.  Obviously the Daystar is oblong to accommodate a variety of dimensions but the holes had apparently made the bracket just that much more weaker.

 
CJ bracket - .161 inch

Daystar bracket - .118 inch

Daystar swaybar bracket

Cj-7 swaybar bracket
with polyurethane bushing.