Thread: broken progress sway bar endlink

Here are much more informative pics: http://www.sr20-forum.com/suspension/43794-help-mounting-progress-rear-anti-swaybar.html

ok..well my heim links will be shipping out from go kart galaxy tomorrow..yay..and those pics are helpful..it's just that the instructions progress provided were so confusing..well to me at least

The lower links are mounted opposite in that picture, interesting. Can't say I have ever done that before.

Brent

Oh, yah, that... That was something I think Greg Vogel suggested to me one time. He said someone else had done it to give them more clearance for something, maybe swaybar related. Although he also said it might avoid some binding? That makes no sense to me though. Specifically I was told to flip just the forward parallel link only. At the time I did it because I was told it might help with my ridiculous rear suspension problem. It didn't help. Actually, now that I think about it with fresh eyes it looks like it gives you less clearance for your exhaust and for Progress rear swaybar clearance.

Needless to say, I eventually went back to the stock configuration.

you gotta flip the L bracket if your car is low. the way shown in the pictures above is how the instructions tell you to do it i believe.

the key thing here the heim joints need to face the same direction, that is the main reason that this failed, if the bracket mounted to the strut had been rotated 90* this would not have happened. i would inspect the other side for stress cracks.

Good thread. I plan on getting one of these. Should be useful down the road.

so would i keep the bushing where the stock sway bar bushings were or do i move it somewhere else..the links show me where to install the heim links but doesnt show where to install the bushings

Yah the chassis bushings stay in the stock location.

The last time that happened I had the end links installed at an angle and the right one snapped. I wrapped it with a wrag and drove her home and situated the brackets correctly. Of course I did'nt read the %^&*(&^*## instructions.

just put the sway bar back on the right way this time...car handles much much better than my previous set-up..she's much more tail happy now.