I installed a Whiteline adjust. rear swaybar with the heavy duty mounts. I put plenty of grease on the bushings so I would get the sqeaking noise a lot of people get. The problem I'm having is when I make right hand turns I get a grinding noise from the rear. It sounds like somebody going down a ruff street on a skateboard. At first it was only when I made hard rights but then it got worse to a point that it did it any time I turned right, left hand turns were fine. I inspected everything that I could think of that may be rubbing and nothing and all the bolts were tight. I took everything off and installed my stock sway bar back on with stock mounts to see if it grinds and it's gone. I rechecked everything and I still didn't see any visable rubbing or grinding spots. Any ideas?

 

I have the same problem with my whiteline RSB/whiteline endlinks/HD mounts. My car will make noise when I turn right. I heard something about the "Teflon tape trick" will make the noise gone.

 

impreza2002, Is this on the wagon or the sedan?
The Whiteline Bar is slightly wider than the stock wagon bar. Both of you should try getting under to see if the bar is very close to the right side when it is sitting or if the endlinks are at a slightly different vertical angle when viewed from the rear. Maybe just a bar shift/adjustment can make the difference.
Do either of you have aftermarket wheels? This can change the clearances as well.

Troy

 

Don't know if this is application specific, but I have a Perrin rear sway bar and here's what happened:

With the adjustment in the middle hole, everything was fine. But I wanted the rear end to come around easier so I stiffened the rear sway bar by mounting it in the hole nearest the rear of the car as per Perrin's excellent tech support.

Well, the back end now does what I want. Excellent. But there was a side-effect. I started hearing a loud metallic "clanking" sound every time the suspension rapidly compressed. I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything loose. Then just as I was about to give up I found the cause.

By altering the position of the sway bar as it relates to the rest of the car (done when I stiffened the rear sway bar), the "loop" that goes over the exhaust pipe to the muffler started to contact the upper seam on the back of the stock muffler. When the car was sitting stationary, there was still a 1/2-inch gap, so there were no warning signs. But later, after much searching I noticed the smallest of scratch marks on the sway bar where it turns out that, as the suspension compressed, the rear sway bar rotated back into the muffler causing the clank I was hearing.

So, maybe this is what you've got going on or maybe not. But the point is, look hard, and remember that the sway bar moves, as do the things it's attached to. So think about what happens in a right hand turn versus a left when you're under there next time.

Hope that helps, and good luck!

--BA

 

thanks a bunch for the ideas. I may try and take the muffler off and check the top for rubbing.