"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
12/13/2014 at 00:59 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
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IIII'M GETTIN' SWAY BARS!
I'm selling my laptop tomorrow, and taking the resulting $150 and buying:
Rear Cadillac Seville STS "Sport & Handling" FE3 sway bar $35
End links and bushings (if needed) from OReilly's
Then, next week, I'm having shipped a...
Front Pontiac Bonneville GXP "Sport & Handling" FE5 sway bar $35
End links and bushings (if needed) from OReilly's.
The difficult part about tomorrow will be figuring out how the rear sway bar goes on. There currently isn't one on the car, so that will be interesting for sure. Even more interesting is I have no idea how end links are supposed to work, or where things hook up, since I have absolutely no access to a LeSabre with Sport&Handling suspension (stupidly rare, those things) to see how it all bolts together. I just hope it's obvious.
XJDano
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
12/13/2014 at 01:03 |
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I need to reattach my sway bar in the rear, makes it drove funny with only one side hooked up.
Takuro Spirit
> XJDano
12/13/2014 at 01:24 |
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I drove my Neon for a couple days with no sway bars. Had Mopar Performance ones on it and went back to stock, but the trade took a few extra days.
Silly me threw away the stock bars, thinking I'd keep the car forever. HA.
It drove weird.
crowmolly
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
12/13/2014 at 01:27 |
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Start spraying everything with PB blaster now. That will make installation easier.
gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
12/13/2014 at 02:22 |
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Assuming there's somewhere to put them (I would assume there is due to platform sharing and manufacturing cost reductions, but you never know) they should be reasonably obvious. The sway bar will center more or less in the car, and one end of the end links will obviously attach to the sway bar. Once you figure out how the sway bar bolts to the car, the end links will point towards where they attach.
Since others are sharing the no-sway-bar stories, I managed to break both of the end links on my Jeep's front sway bar. There is no rear one. I drove it for about a month before I got around to fixing it, and it was pretty sketchy. We're talking maintaining a straight line down the highway, but 10° back and forth on the steering wheel was enough to get it rocking back and forth to the point a passenger slapped me... I never went more than five left-right cycles, but I'm pretty sure by ten I could have had the wheels off the ground on one side. It was BAD. There are people who throw out their sway bars just to get more articulation offroad, and then continue to daily drive them... I can't understand it. It felt like I was going to flip on every on-ramp. Sure, unbolting the end links and tucking everything up out of the way when you're on the trail, but getting rid of the sway bar altogether? Oh God, no.
Jayhawk Jake
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
12/13/2014 at 05:59 |
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You're welcome