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Old 02-24-2013, 01:38 AM   #69
likaroc13
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Re: sway bar questions

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Originally Posted by losthope View Post
LOL! I think it is......nobodys perfect...the only reason I said something is because it looked odd, and I was reading about sway bars and read in order from them to work properly the part that bolts to the arm needs to be parallel to the ground then beads up to the mounts on the frame, and the way you have it the bar bolts to the a-arms starting out angling up then goes parallel when it bolts to the frame....
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Originally Posted by likaroc13 View Post
thanks Woog for the PDF instructions...i will save your installation pics as well & send them to my dad...how much differently does it drive now?

woops, i think you do have it upside down glad "losthope" noticed that!
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Originally Posted by Woogeroo View Post
losthope - I went back out and looked at it with the flashlight... and looked at my pics and some other pics of installs I've saved...

I think yer right, it is upside down!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.

I guess I was more tired than I thought at that point.

I'm glad you caught that!

Thanks.

Oh well, the hard part was the holes and everything for me, I was freaking out I'd drill 'em wrong.

hahahahahaha.

It never fails, I have to do everything over, anytime I work on this thing... it always turns into a civil engineering project, I swear!

-W

p.s. likearoc13 - don't use those pics! hahahaha

use these instead

The sad part is I looked at those, the install article photos and more... before I slipped it in there!



It looked right when I was upside down and under it... hahahaha.
Dang it, Woog! I sent the link with pics to my dad; I also printed those instructions & mailed them to him. And what did he do tonight??? Installed the sway bar brackets backward. He did get the bar itself correct though. He sent cell phone pics at first. I asked if he used the instructions, & he said nope. Oookay. So I get home & upload the pics to the computer, only to find out the frame brackets are backward.

Moral of the story: If you've never done this, READ THE DIRECTIONS! And then look at pictures to verify.
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