Suspension Techniques Anti-Sway Bar Endlinks.

There's been a lot of confusion regarding how to install the Anti-Sway Bar endlinks and their function.

Here's a very simple guide.


Here is the endlink how it SHOULD be bolted in. The holes in the bracket are used to determine the firm/soft of the bar. To make the ***-end of the car to pivot easier, move the bracket down and bolt it in the "firm" hole. This essentially reduces the amount of roll and travel of the anti-sway bar. The bracket has a lip that is suppose to use the shock as leverage.
This image is with the rear bumper closest to you, on the passenger side.


Top view of the endlink. You can tell how it's bolted together with the spacers.
You can also see the three holes in the sway bar.


Facing the outside of the vehicle, this shows the three holes in the anti-sway bar.
To reduce understeer, move the endlink towards "stiff".

To stiffest setting would be:
"Stiff-Firm". Stiff being the hole on the anti-sway bar that is furthest from the end of the bar and "Firm" being the shock braket hole on top.

The loosest setting would be:
"Loose-Soft". Loose, being the hole on the anti-sway bar that is at the end of the bar and "Soft" being the lower hole on the shock bracket.


As you can see, my bar is set at "Neutral-Soft". The car pivots predictably and handles rather nicely.


Here is how some people have installed it (including me):

http://kazs.info/kam/images/suspension/swaybarlink.jpg
Now, in the above pic, this is not necessarily WRONG. I ran this way for a good year and a half and had NO problems. However, for those nit-pickers, this is essentially "incorrect". If you have it installed this way, don't fret unless it really bugs you. It's actually EASIER to change the settings on the bar this way, since you don't have to remove the shock bracket to adjust the "firm-soft" setting.


http://kazs.info/kam/images/suspension/swaybarlink2.jpg
Here is the lip on the shock bracket that is "suppose" to be against the shock.


To recap, the first pictures are how the bar was intended to be installed. It doesn't mean it won't function properly installed in the later pictures.

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[Modified by Driven, 9:28 AM 3/27/2003]