Sway Bar Install
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Joined: Jul 2021
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From: Longview, Texas
Sway Bar Install
Good evening everyone. I have a question about a sway bar installation. I am installing Hotchkis sport suspension bars. The back one is non-adjustable (one hole).
My question is, After installing the rear bar, the links (non-adjustable) are not straight up and down. They are angling to the outside. Is this just a matter of rolling the sway bar? Or is this normal?
Thanks for any help. I just got called into work. So it might be a while before I can respond to any replies. So don't think I have forgotten about it. LOL.
Thanks again, Scotty
My question is, After installing the rear bar, the links (non-adjustable) are not straight up and down. They are angling to the outside. Is this just a matter of rolling the sway bar? Or is this normal?
Thanks for any help. I just got called into work. So it might be a while before I can respond to any replies. So don't think I have forgotten about it. LOL.
Thanks again, Scotty
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Joined: Oct 2012
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From: Baltimore County, Maryland
You just want the bar to be able to freely rotate in the bushings and not be preloaded. I used to think you wanted the sway bar arms to be as parallel to the ground as possible but I never have heard of anything on the links.
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When I installed mine I initially had the swaybar "upside down" or "backwards" and the endlinks were all kinds of misaligned. Once I realized the Hotchkis sticker is supposed to be upside down, it all went together perfectly...If you can read the sticker normally the bar is flipped wrong and nothing lines up.
