does the comptech rear sway bar come with everything pictured below?
i just received my order and it only had the bushings. it did not have the washers or the mounts showed in the picture from the CT website.

 

Wow. You got the bushings? Mine didn't even come with those. I had to reuse my OEM rubber ones. Hmmm. Maybe someone else can chime in as well. I night have to call Comptech up to ask for mine. Mine just came with the bar and instructions. I reused everything else.

dsc888

 

WHOA... NO bushings? That's a mistake... The bushings will be super tight on the bar going from 17 to 22... (Maybe you got by as possibly you have a 5mt? 20-22 might be OK)

 

The bar and the bushings... You reuse the brackets from your existing setup. Same pretty much goes for the hardware as well.

 

Actually, I have a 5AT and the bushings didn't even go all the way around since it was designed for the 17mm OEM bar. OK. I will call up Comptech now. Since I will be doing the rear A-spec install next week, I will put them in if they send them to me. Thanks for clarifying this situation. Did they come with grease for the poly bushings?

dsc888

 

No grease... I use the Mobil 1 syntehetic grease... Spiffy red color... LOL

They have it at PepBoys now and also Autozone for a few bucks.

 

my came with the bushings and the bar.............what happens if you don't use grease?

i don't recall the instructions saying to put grease anywhere, or maybe i didn't read close enough........again i don't know much about installing things, so forgive me for my own ignorance

 

Grease wasn't in the instructions actually... Being the engineer that I am (more oft than not, a BAD thing... LOL)...

I figured that metal (bracket) to rubber (grommet) to metal (sway bar diameter) contact COULD create some squeaking/rubbing noises as the sway bar rotated ever so slightly while the suspension was in travel. I lubed with the grease to elimate this possibility. Do I think it matters that I did and some didn't? In my engineering opinion... HELL NO! It certainly didn't hurt.

 

thanks for the info.

 

you're joking right? the old bushings dont fit the new swaybar diameter !!!

 

I had to reuse the OEM bushings and I have noise coming from the rear when I go over speed bumps. Initially I thought it might have been due to the sway bar but now I am thinking it is something to do with the rear suspension and warranty work from my dealer...I greased the shit out of the bushings anyway...

 

Did you read this thread???

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113812

It sounds like a fair number of us have this same issue. Mine, as stated in the above thread, thuds/clunks going over bumps. Is that the same kinda noise you got??? Did it start just after sway bar install? (I'm not sure when mine started)

Read that above thread and see if you can't help us all piece this together...

Sway bar issue that is more a nuisance than anything or something awry with our suspension... The game is afoot.

 

I'm really thinking about this now... ROFL

Perhaps the problem is we DID grease the RSB... Had it not been greased, perhaps it tendency to move left/right would be less due to the friction between the rubber and the RSB???

On the same token, using the opposite argument, you'd think that the grease would allow the bar to move back into "nuetral" position much more easily...

A conundrum...

 

OK guys. I lied ! I just took a look at my Comptech bar. It does have the new bushings on. I'm getting old . For some reason, I can't get out of my head that the Comptech bushings are just rubber instead of polyurethane. Poly ones would have been nice but would need constant relubing. Sorry for the confusion.

dsc888