Sunday, August 17, 2008

Rear Sway Bar Done

It was one of those weird times of the day today.. like just after 3pm when there's was some dead time between my last project (hanging a new overhead fan) and dinner. I was sitting there looking at the car and saying, "dang... a whole weekend and nothing done on the 'teg." Well that's when I started wondering how easy it'd be to get that rear swaybar on.

I had been eyeball'n a couple of times, but just thought it'd be a day project. Or I thought I'd do one then the other same day, but recently my projects have been often sidelined... No worries tho~..

So I just wanna eye ball the project again by jacking up the rear to look underneath. I spot the stock sway bar and notice there's not much to it... I then grab the instructions with a diagram on how it goes together and the wheels start turning... "let's do it"

Without double thinking I go at it with sockets & wrenches and pull the stock assembly out and put together the parts for the aftermarket sway bar. There were some funky how to and where does this go for a couple of minutes, but once I figured it out-- and put it together. Bingo.. 20 minutes of wrench work and it was nailed out by dinnertime. Well 10min after the first dinner call.

I was pushing to get it done before this thunderstorm hit... And I did it in the nick of time too.

Felt solid when I was done, but I'll see tomorrow I guess. Anyway, between the stock bar and the aftermarket one I can see why such a bar is needed. The stock bar amounts to nothing more then a dowel to just ease the car before rolling... This new bar is super thick and strong and will probably do the job. I can see later on down the road though... I'll be pulling all the stock suspension parts and replacing them :P

Ah well.. good times..

~J out

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