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Old May 30, 2006 | 01:31 PM
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Rear sway bar install party?

Anyone want to have one of those?
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by JustJAY
Anyone want to have one of those?
What he is really asking is does anyone care to help us install ours?
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 01:49 PM
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I got one, but I'm willing to lend a hand if there's a party.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 01:56 PM
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Does booze and bars mix? Perhaps it should be the B & B Party.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 02:00 PM
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Find someone with a floor jack to help! It will make life easier
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 02:03 PM
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I can always get a floor jack. It is cheaper than having someone else install the thing.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MiniNurse
What he is really asking is does anyone care to help us install ours?
I would be GLAD to help. also because I would like to install one on mine. Any recommendations?

Originally Posted by JustJAY
Does booze and bars mix? Perhaps it should be the B & B Party.
Oh yeah!!!! As long as we install the sway bar BEFORE we drink!
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 02:23 PM
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It is up to MiniNurse, but we could do it at our place before we move. We have a small garage and a small townhouse, 13ft wide, and can have a small party. We got the Alta, actually, don't they recommend for Cooper people to just get an S sway bar?
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 02:36 PM
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Any recommendations on a front sway bar? Id like to install one of those too, possibly before a rear sway bar.

Ill be checking the forums here on NAM as well.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 03:23 PM
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Check around folks for what you want to install. As from what I have read a front bar isn't needed.

I can lend a floor jack and a set of hands. Mark W did my bar and I watched as he worked. I'd love to learn more and change the setting on my bar.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 05:56 PM
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... and as always...

I don't have the know how for that job, but I do have a wide garage, floor jack, stands, and compressor with impact wrenchs etc. that any and all are welcome to use. SO if you get the brains but need a site...
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 07:46 PM
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Front swaybars don't do much. Strut tower bars & the under strut system do different things, but the swaybar = not so much.

I have a floor jack & jack stands.
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 09:59 PM
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I feel the makings of a party! Who needs to install anyting to get us all together! (I really want the sway bar installed though) Anyone brave enough to check fuses to see why the heck my airconditioner doesn't put air out of the front vents? I want to try to avoid going to MoS or LDG...and paying...
 
Old May 30, 2006 | 10:48 PM
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Damn. The install took me like 4 hours (alone), a few months back..

I finished my thing up after sun went down.

Forget that 1.5 hr or whatever the installation time .. it's just stupid.
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 04:51 AM
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With a buddy, we made the rear sway bar install in just under two hours. Actually very simple. I'm willing to lend assistance/advice. Just make sure u have a floor jack & jack stands. Impact tools good, but not required.

Front sway bar not worth the time/effort & $ for the performance gain. Rear you will notice immediate response.
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 10:11 AM
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Damn. The install took me like 4 hours (alone), a few months back..

I finished my thing up after sun went down.

Forget that 1.5 hr or whatever the installation time .. it's just stupid.
Took me and another guy who had no clue 2 hours...

Now I have a clue, a book (haynes), and a club of goon strength! We can do it in less than two!
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 12:04 PM
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took me a few hours, and its not that hard. i didnt have a floor jack, but our mini crowbar came in handy for lowering the subframe!

im up for helping anytime

see: you can do it too )



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Old May 31, 2006 | 02:25 PM
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That looks like a floorjack on your left to me.
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by CmdrVimes
That looks like a floorjack on your left to me.
haha I was thinking the car lift things that raise the car off the ground. Dumb me. I have an even better jack than that one now!
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 03:09 PM
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haha I was thinking the car lift things that raise the car off the ground. Dumb me. I have an even better jack than that one now!

That would be a "lift", it is what ever well stocked home garage should have
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by paddy
That would be a "lift", it is what ever well stocked home garage should have
I would suggest a frame lift over alot of other types of lifts too. They seem to be the most versatile. Although a lift with an alignment rack would also be fine.
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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Sounds like we could have a big party of watchers and installers. Would be a Sway party. Or is that swing party
 
Old May 31, 2006 | 08:14 PM
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And...

Originally Posted by paddy
That would be a "lift", it is what ever well stocked home garage should have
... and a center floor drain!
 
 
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