Sway bar upside down???

[Sweet_EL_]

I just got my checked out by the lockel pedders dealer, coz when I hav 3 ppl in the back, it sounds like and feels like it hits the stops... He said that the back end is a little low and it hitting the body into the exhaust and onto the diff. And then he tells me that my rear sway it put on upside down... So he is seggesting that I get pedders coils and shocks...

Since I have the full whiteline works sus kit on the car. I'm not sure if I want to change th rear to pedders.

Heres a pic of the sway bar on the car. What do yous think??

I looked my mums NC Fairlane and look like its the same way...

[EDXR6T]

just get ur zorst tuked up

the guy's just trying to get a sale dont buy in to it

[EFFalcon]

Don't change your whiteline stuff for pedders stuff.
as a package the white line kit is an awesome setup, if anything check the exhaust clearance or put up with it.
or take it to an independant workshop for another opinion.

[Damo]

how could it be upside down ? :S lol

[Sweet_EL_]

I don't know maay he thinks is ment to go under the diff insted of over it!?!?!?

[Sweet_EL_]

However I have noticed that the rear end does sit lower then the front. The wheel arch is just level with the tyre, the front sits a bit higher, so as the rear shock or coils have been worn or something??

[jabba]

Well, that's the first time I have seen a sway bar go over the top of the diff.... I have only ever seen the go under the diff.....

[INJECTED_250]

that looks fine, they go over the diff. Dont listen to pedders, There job is selling suspension, so of course there not goin to let u leave without flogging u somthing u dont need. Just tell ralph (pedders bloke of ad) he dont know what his on about

[JUZXR8]

rmmm i always thought that sway bars went under the diff aswell....

[Damo]

man you guys are tripping the sway bar is fine, they go over the diff! well i know in E-Series they do. :

[Rollin]

yeah, on live axle commos they go under, maybe you guys have been hanging round your holden mates too long? :P

E-series it goes over

[Steve's TS50]

I had trouble with my Whiteline Kit.
Found out (after getting their boss under car for a look) that they had wrong bolts (that hold sway bar to chasis). Bolts they supplied were way to short.
Basically they were 10mm bolts about 60 mm long from memory.
Bob (Boss at Whiteline) then recognised they needed special length studs (double ended like Ford use from factory) in the kits not these bolts.
** Especially if you are running on SL springs**

Problem fixed.
No more sway bar knocking under car.

The new bolts they supply lift the sway bar about 30-40mm clear of the chasis rail which improves clearance over diff etc.

Hope this might help.

Maybe they forgot to revise their kits after my experience. (3 years ago)

Steve

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by INJECTED_250

that looks fine, they go over the diff. Dont listen to pedders, There job is selling suspension, so of course there not goin to let u leave without flogging u somthing u dont need. Just tell ralph (pedders bloke of ad) he dont know what his on about

But Ralph is a Technician.... /Sarcam

E series go over the top, making hard to fit two 2.5 inch pipes. I need to make one go under my diff :

[-jjM-]

Originally Posted by Damo

man you guys are tripping the sway bar is fine, they go over the diff! well i know in E-Series they do. :

ditto, ive removed 4 sway bars before, and they were all on top

sounds like hes tryin to make a sale out of u, whitelines the beez knees dude

[Sweet_EL_]

Originally Posted by Steve's XR8

I had trouble with my Whiteline Kit.
Found out (after getting their boss under car for a look) that they had wrong bolts (that hold sway bar to chasis). Bolts they supplied were way to short.
Basically they were 10mm bolts about 60 mm long from memory.
Bob (Boss at Whiteline) then recognised they needed special length studs (double ended like Ford use from factory) in the kits not these bolts.
** Especially if you are running on SL springs**

Problem fixed.
No more sway bar knocking under car.

The new bolts they supply lift the sway bar about 30-40mm clear of the chasis rail which improves clearance over diff etc.

Hope this might help.

Maybe they forgot to revise their kits after my experience. (3 years ago)

Steve

Do you mean the bolts on the 8 looking thing?? What difference would it make if I change the position the bolts are in??

[Rollin]

that makes the effective stiffness of the swaybar change - moving the links 'backwards' makes the leverage on the arm less, making the effective stiffness higher - at the moment your bar is set to its softest setting.

[Steve's TS50]

Sweet EL.
My sway bar was different to that one.
Mine is not adjustable.

[Sweet_EL_]

Ah I didn't that it would b installed wrong because the car used to be owned but the owner of a whiteline sus place...

so if I put the sway bar to a stiffer it wouldn't effect the hight of the car it just change how the backend feels when I'm driving??

[Aaron_EF8]

If everything is working properly it'll make the car more responsive from the rear, and will cause the car to oversteer more. Height and ride quality won't change.

[Sweet_EL_]

ah thanks