I read on the a-spec racing site the proper way to install a rear sway is on the ground. Does this go for non-adjustable endlinks? I have 99-00 Si rear endlinks on my ITR rear bar with beaks kit. Should i bolt the endlinks into the LCAs on the ground or with the car in the air and off the ground?

just wondering...

 

uumm, i've never installed/removed any sway bar, regardless of combination, on the ground.

 

Someone had said that to me as well, but I've never seen it written anywhere. It also wasn't in the instructions for my comptech bar. I have no idea how the hell you'd install one on the ground anyway.

 

i could be wrong, but i have always thought that the reason you install [or adjust after the install] the sway bar on the ground is due to the want for the sway bar to sit parallel to the ground when the car is sitting at it's normal ride height.

so, if you had adjustable endlinks, you would adjust the swaybar after making ride height adjustments.

if you have no adjustablity on your bar i don't see a problem lifting the car first.

if you did, you can still install the bar with the car in the air and after you lower it you would adjust the endlinks to bring the bar parallel with the gound.

 

You would need to adjust or remove the sway bar "preload" when the car is on level ground. This could only be acomplished by adjustable end links. You don't really have a choice of how parallell the bar is w/ the ground, since the bar mounting points usually aren't adjustable.

Also, you want to make sure the bar doesn't bind when the suspension is settled. If you install it w/ the suspension at ride height, you can check the bars avaliable movement. This only aplies to an aftermarket bar, that could possibly be installed wrong.

If it's an OEM bar, there is no need to bother since there is ONLY 1 way for it to go on.

 

id recommend you install it with your car lifted..not doing so will make it hard to get the other side mounted because technically its a spring....so like the guy said above, you have to relieve the preload on the sway or whatever...but just so you know lift it.

 

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How would you do this, or know if the bar is pre-loaded?

 

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How would you do this, or know if the bar is pre-loaded?

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i think one would need to intentionally preload the bar. once it is installed you'd need to crank up on just one end link [if it were adjustable]. i can't see any use for this unless if you raced oval track or something.

 

Adding preload would be accomplished by unbolting one end-link, adjusting its length to achive the desired preload, then jack up one wheel until you could bolt that end-link to the LCA.
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To remove preload on a bar that hasn't been installed yet, you would mount the bar, bolt up one end link, adjust the other endlink until it lines up perfectly w/ the LCA mount point (w/ the car on the ground), then bolt that end-link down. []-=-[]

You'll know if the bar is preloaded when you can't bolt up both end-links with either side of the suspension at the same height. []-=-[]