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12-28-2006, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by JTso
The thicker and heavier rear swaybar is known to reduce gas mileage by 2 mpg. 
seriously? what's the weight difference?
if you were sarcastic, then
on me. but it wasn't in red...
12-29-2006, 07:19 AM
#13
East Coast Crew
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Originally Posted by JTso
Nah, I was just messing with visuelz. 
It's a rear sway bar. You replace the old one with this one and it makes your handling a lot better. I'm going to need to park my car on the streets to do this. It's going to suck putting it in.
12-30-2006, 07:45 PM
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The hex key was the worse idea to use. I still haven't completed it since it's dark so I put everything back. I tried so hard on that hex key and I stripped that metal down to a circle. The better way is to take a wrench and hold on to the hex while using a wrench on the screw. I didnt even have time to see if everything was torqued back to place...=[. Now does anyone know where I can get a new hex thing sorta screw for the endlink?
Here was how my car looked like
Here was how my car looked like
12-31-2006, 12:51 PM
#21
Let me chime in on the damaged hex pattern on the endlink as I have some experience here. I too stripped the key pattern and figured I needed a new end link. But what I found was that if I put the hex key in such that the long portion was parallel to the sway bar (not the overall bar, but parallel to the portion of the bar where it attaches to the endlink before it turns) and sort of pulled it to the bar, gripping both in one closed hand, it created awkward angle torque on the hex key and allowed grip on an unstripped surface, which allowed me to retighten it. If I needed to work with the thing alot I'd replace the endlink but I'm hoping I never need to remove/reinstall the thing.
12-31-2006, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by scheißterhöffer
Let me chime in on the damaged hex pattern on the endlink as I have some experience here. I too stripped the key pattern and figured I needed a new end link. But what I found was that if I put the hex key in such that the long portion was parallel to the sway bar (not the overall bar, but parallel to the portion of the bar where it attaches to the endlink before it turns) and sort of pulled it to the bar, gripping both in one closed hand, it created awkward angle torque on the hex key and allowed grip on an unstripped surface, which allowed me to retighten it. If I needed to work with the thing alot I'd replace the endlink but I'm hoping I never need to remove/reinstall the thing.
01-01-2007, 01:23 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by jlukja
you parked next to a fire hydrant.
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