Has anyone of you install the sway bars on your CLS yourself? If so how long did it take and is it a pain in the ***? Is there allot of work involve? Would you need to realign the front end? Thanks for any feedback or tips.

 

I'm no mechanic, but someone will assist you better than I. Just make sure it is done correct ! You will enjoy them......

 

A friend and I did mine. Took about an hour. It was very easy. No alignment was needed afte words.

 

Thanks for your response tuleman. Is the install pretty straight forward? Would I be disconnecting any of the front end parts to get it bolted on? I haven't climbed under to check it out yet.

 

Gary, you should come to our next meet and/or get in touch with Norcal CL-S (Justin). He and his brother installed the sways on his CL-S together.

 

Thanks Mike, I plan on coming to your next meet. Hope to chit chat with the guys on their mods.

 

GRF, welcome. What part of Sacto. are you from ? See you at our meet on the 18th, lots of mods for you to check out !

 

tuleman!!! where u been man? havent seen u on the board in a while? you missed the past 2 meets. wassup?

 

If it's anything like my Subaru, you can do it in well under 30 minutes and it's just 4 bolts.

 

Red Rider
I'm from the north side of town. Town & Country, Carmichael area. Looking forward to the meet. I posted a question on the forum on whether some of the guys replace the front, back, or both sways. How about you?

 

i looked at instructinos on how to do it and it doesn't seem too hard, except that i think you have to raise the car up and unload the suspension.

otherwise it's just a couple bolts to remove the stock and same thing to install the new one.

 

In HELMS manual, self-lockings nuts are to be replaced by new ones.

Does comptech's come with such nuts?

 

The Helm manual also suggests new self-locking nuts when changing springs. If the sways are like springs, they don't come with new nuts. I just reused the old ones and applied some Loctite Threadlocker to hold them in place as an extra precaution.

I’m curious if Acura dealerships use new ones or if they just re-use the old ones when installing sways and springs... I looked at the self-locking nuts after removal and they seemed to be in perfectly fine shape for re-use.

 

Hey THANKS tinman and Night Hawk for your imput. Looking at your sigs it doesn't appear that either one of you have sways. Night hawk you mention that it might involve dropping the suspension. You don't mean the whole front end do you? For those of you that have actually installed sways yourself need your imput. Thanks Allot!!

 

I'm sorry Night Hawk it was mrdeeno that mentioned unloading the suspension.

 

Lift the car is all that is needed.

Lift up the front, replace. repeat for the rear.

 

Thanks Night Hawk!! I do appreciate it.

 

Hey Night Hawk
How do you like your trunk mat. Does it cover the whole trunk and how is the quality. Dealer here has it for $79.00. Think that's a good buy?

 

Very nice liner, It does cover the whole trunk floor. You lose the 2 hooks, for the net, on the trunk floor. Easy to clean.

I got mine from the dealer. I do not know if $80 is a best deal ever . I checked autocarparts.com and it is $90.00. I guess it's fair price.

I like mine.

 

that's what i meant by unloading the suspension, taking the load off of it by raising the car.

 

Do it yourself. I did mine myself and took about 1-1.5hrs. Also went out and bought a torque wrench to torque the bolts back on at the specs. For specs just do a search...

 

Did both, huge difference in feel. Probably the best mod for the money based on everyones feedback.
Lookin forward to meeting you on the 18th.

 

Welcome GRF, Sways install! Hmmm! Definitely do front and back, and just have a good pair of jack stands. The whole process takes about an hour. I'd say check out comptech's site and download the sway bar instructions, it'll tell you everything you need to know..

See you @ mini meet 5 or 4.5?