LCA and Sway Bar problem help!
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LCA and Sway Bar problem help!
Hey guys my REAR sway bar is touching and hitting my LCA.. is it because it was installed wrong?
Update: FIXED thx for the pictures.
Modified by l2al3l3it at 9:49 PM 9/25/2007
Update: FIXED thx for the pictures.
Modified by l2al3l3it at 9:49 PM 9/25/2007
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From: Chula Juana 619, CA, You Es Of A
Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (l2al3l3it)
I'm guessing you installed it upside down. I realize you may not have the same setup, but these pictures will help illustrate a properly installed rear anti-roll bar. Good luck/
From the back looking forward @ left (drivers) LCA.
Front of left LCA looking back and right.
Front of left LCA looking back.
From the back looking forward @ left (drivers) LCA.
Front of left LCA looking back and right.
Front of left LCA looking back.
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (Guam_CiviC619)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Guam_CiviC619 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
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Swap that bolt around, put the bolt through the LCA first, nut goes on the endlink side.
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Swap that bolt around, put the bolt through the LCA first, nut goes on the endlink side.
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (DavidR)
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Swap that bolt around, put the bolt through the LCA first, nut goes on the endlink side. </TD></TR></TABLE>
just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.
Swap that bolt around, put the bolt through the LCA first, nut goes on the endlink side. </TD></TR></TABLE>
just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (gsrob)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gsrob »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you want some help you need to tell us what car you have and what set up you are trying to use. It's pretty hard to figure it out with no details. </TD></TR></TABLE>
and I am using BLOX sway,endlinks,lca
and I am using BLOX sway,endlinks,lca
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (Tyson)
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just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I am just going by what Function7 has told me to tell my customers.
just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I am just going by what Function7 has told me to tell my customers.
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (Tyson)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tyson »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Because the standard metric bolts are not threaded all the way, and if the bolt goes through the linkage first, the first nut won't screw in all the way (stops where the thread stops) you get slop and the problems start compounding from there.
Right way to install:
Bolt -> through arm -> spacer (nut) -> through linkage -> smaller nut
The RIGHT way, like this:
Remember to use Loctite.
The following are wrong
WRONG (notice how the silver nut doesn't thread in all the way)
WRONG
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Modified by Function7 at 4:06 AM 9/29/2007
just curious, why? seems fine the way it is.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Because the standard metric bolts are not threaded all the way, and if the bolt goes through the linkage first, the first nut won't screw in all the way (stops where the thread stops) you get slop and the problems start compounding from there.
Right way to install:
Bolt -> through arm -> spacer (nut) -> through linkage -> smaller nut
The RIGHT way, like this:
Remember to use Loctite.
The following are wrong
WRONG (notice how the silver nut doesn't thread in all the way)
WRONG
-A
Modified by Function7 at 4:06 AM 9/29/2007
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From: Chula Juana 619, CA, You Es Of A
I have not installed them the "right way" yet. From the start I've changed the hardware and used spacers, there is no slop. The heim-joints have proper articulation, I used the large nut as a fastner and the small one as a lock nut. This is the way I interpreted it to be used, as there was no instuctions that came with the linkages or on the website.
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (crexer)
https://honda-tech.com/zero...23193
https://honda-tech.com/zero...13547
We have been, and continue to be, completely up front about the fact that we do not make our linkages. Our linkages are off-the-shelf components and our supplier had switched to a foreign manufacturing source.
Ask any other manufacturer where the inspiration for the features found on the latest versions of their suspension products came from and I doubt you'll get a straight answer.
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Modified by Function7 at 10:51 AM 10/1/2007
https://honda-tech.com/zero...13547
We have been, and continue to be, completely up front about the fact that we do not make our linkages. Our linkages are off-the-shelf components and our supplier had switched to a foreign manufacturing source.
Ask any other manufacturer where the inspiration for the features found on the latest versions of their suspension products came from and I doubt you'll get a straight answer.
-A
Modified by Function7 at 10:51 AM 10/1/2007
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Re: LCA and Sway Bar problem help! (Function7)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Function7 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Because the standard metric bolts are not threaded all the way, and if the bolt goes through the linkage first, the first nut won't screw in all the way (stops where the thread stops) you get slop and the problems start compounding from there.
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because he was using the spacer (where ever he sourced it from, F7?), it appears to not be a problem.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by omniman »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> you can see the USA and China parts trying to work together.
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funny how they can make their stuff not break. try to at least copy that.
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because he was using the spacer (where ever he sourced it from, F7?), it appears to not be a problem.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by omniman »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> you can see the USA and China parts trying to work together.
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funny how they can make their stuff not break. try to at least copy that.
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