How would I go about mounting a front sway bar on my 89 STD hatch....if anyone has pics even better.

 

Do you have the parts yet? OEM or aftermarket? For a stock one:



1) Check to see if your front LCA's have a hole for the endlink. It would be kinda below #3 and #14 in the illustration (the ones just above where the radius rod bolts to the arm). If not you'll have to update to front LCAs with them or you could probably just drill a hole.

2) Get the endlink assemblies (nuts, washers, bushings, and endlink bolt) for both sides:
#22 x4, #3 x8, #14 x8, and #15 x2

3) Honda does (from top to bottom):
nut-washer-bushing-swaybar-bushing-washer-bolt-washer-bushing-LCA-bushing-washer -nut

4) You should tighten this assembly until they all just touch each other. Then go a quarter turn past that. Don't crank things down untilt he bushings are squishing from comrpession.

5) Check the rear subframe (thing the steering rack is mounted to), there should be a threaded hole (hole with a nut welded on the backside) with a corresponding slot for the d-brackets.

5) Get the sway bar, bushings and d-brackets and bolts:
#1, #4 x2, #2 x2 and #24 x2

6) Should be pretty obvious how this assembles. You might need to get the car jacked up fairly high to get the bar in. And wiggl- it-around/rotate it as you do, you'll need to clear the cat, etc.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by XrcR6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you have the parts yet? OEM or aftermarket? For a stock one:



1) Check to see if your front LCA's have a hole for the endlink. It would be kinda below #3 and #14 in the illustration (the ones just above where the radius rod bolts to the arm). If not you'll have to update to front LCAs with them or you could probably just drill a hole.

2) Get the endlink assemblies (nuts, washers, bushings, and endlink bolt) for both sides:
#22 x4, #3 x8, #14 x8, and #15 x2

3) Honda does (from top to bottom):
nut-washer-bushing-swaybar-bushing-washer-bolt-washer-bushing-LCA-bushing-washer -nut

4) You should tighten this assembly until they all just touch each other. Then go a quarter turn past that. Don't crank things down untilt he bushings are squishing from comrpession.

5) Check the rear subframe (thing the steering rack is mounted to), there should be a threaded hole (hole with a nut welded on the backside) with a corresponding slot for the d-brackets.

5) Get the sway bar, bushings and d-brackets and bolts:
#1, #4 x2, #2 x2 and #24 x2

6) Should be pretty obvious how this assembles. You might need to get the car jacked up fairly high to get the bar in. And wiggl- it-around/rotate it as you do, you'll need to clear the cat, etc.</TD></TR></TABLE>


I have a stock OEM sway bar complete got it from JapJunkie and thanx for the info: XrcR6