Saabaru916

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Smart people of the interwebz! I'm having an issue I'm hoping I could get some opinions on.

I recently replaced my lateral links with Eibach/SPC adjustable links since my stock ones were bent. When re-installing my sway bar however, the clearance on the passenger side is entirely too tight, causing the sway bar to hit the endlink mount. The endlink mounts are beefy adjustable aluminum pieces that are held on with pinch bolts - problem is ... maybe they're too beefy?

To answer questions of what I've already tried, I tried all holes on the adjustable sway bar, the one it's in in the picture had the most clearance. I've also adjusted the sway bar as far to the rear of the car as I can using the Perrin stout mounts I have. I've tried rotating the endlink mount straight down like it should be but that clearance was even tighter, and I couldn't reach any of the holes with the endlinks w/o putting load on the sway bar. The driver side looks just fine.

So what should I do? Obv. I can't keep it like this since the rubbing of the mount and sway bar will eventually bend the lateral link again. Longer endlinks? Different lateral links that have welded on mounts? Different rear sway bar? Any help would be appreciated.

Rev. Rob Large

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I'll get under my car tonight when I get home and take a picture. Those are, for the most part, fixed mounting points so the distances shouldn't change even if they're really close. The end link is supposed to wrap around the lateral link, and the end of the sway bar should sit just above the lateral link.

It looks to me, from that picture, if you set the mount pointing straight down that everything should sit where it needs to be.

de_engineered

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Did you get an alignment right away, or just eyeballed the arm length next to stock? Devil may be in the details there.

I had my car up on ramps when I was putting on a bigger rear sway, and while one side went right on, the other needed some massaging. I used a jack to push up the axle carrier a bit, which helped.

HTH

Saabaru916

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Hmmm, yea it looooooks like that should be the case but, and maybe I didn't have it quite in the right spot, when I had the lateral link mount straight down, the sway bar was just as close to the mount, if not closer, and doing that threw the driver side off some. grrrrrr. I could try and drive her on the ramps again to see if I can loosen the driver side and do the passenger first - my patience for DIYing this mod is running thin though since it continues to not work out.

I went to BAM sway-bar-less since I couldn't get it installed properly in time. ha.

Here's the driver side, sitting as the passenger side should be.

Saabaru916

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Yes, I already had an alignment right after I installed the lateral links - and yea it was pretty jacked up going in to the alignment after installing them at 'eyeball' tolerances. ha.

Saabaru916

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Welp... Messed around with the sway bar last night, removed the endlinks, got the passenger side endlink mount fixed straight down, attached the passenger endlink BUT it still had just as small of a gap between the mount and the sway bar AND I with the passenger side in I couldn't get the driver side to line up. ARrrgggg. Time to leave it up to the professionals so I can have a rubbing-free sway bar.

Saabaru916

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Consensus from M45 was that the fat rear sway bar and fat Eibach endlink mount were working against each other and they couldn't get it installed w/o rubbing. Options were to buy a smaller diameter rear sway or replace the Eibach links with ones that have a welded on tab for the endlinks.

Going with Whiteline lateral links so I can keep my fatty sway bar. Shoulda just gone with those from the get-go. ARrrrrgggg.

Rev. Rob Large

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Good to hear you got it sorted. Even better to hear you're going with the same setup (Whiteline lateral links, Perrin sway bar) as me.

Saabaru916

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Woohoo! At least that means I won't have issues with this setup. HA. 4th time's the charm.