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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 10:20 AM
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My rear sway bar fell off? Help

For the last few weeks, I've notice that my MCS is not as precise when turning corners and it also seem to sway (follow the groove) on the straight road. I've noticed that there are lot of creaking coming from my rear suspension).

Question - I had a RDR swaybar installed (in 2nd setting). I've look under the car and can't seem to find it. Should this bar be visible? Did I lose it? I certainly didn't hear it fall off.

Help, my car is not what it used to be.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 11:13 AM
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I don't think it's possible for it to have fallen off, unless you lost the whole rear suspension and sub frame but it's possible an end link came loose or one or both of the pivot brackets has come loose or fallen off. Best way to check is to get under the car or pull the wheels off. There are pictures on this site that will help you find it, if you're still having a problem.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by leer
For the last few weeks, I've notice that my MCS is not as precise when turning corners and it also seem to sway (follow the groove) on the straight road. I've noticed that there are lot of creaking coming from my rear suspension).

Question - I had a RDR swaybar installed (in 2nd setting). I've look under the car and can't seem to find it. Should this bar be visible? Did I lose it? I certainly didn't hear it fall off.

Help, my car is not what it used to be.
Look thru one of your rear rims. You should see it located just above and a little passed the brake disk. It did not fall out, that's impossible. Take it back to whoever installed if your not able to find the bar and the mounting locations to the subframe. Mine loosened at the subframe before, just tightened it back up. Hope this helps
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 12:18 PM
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also have the 3 bolts that hold the rear arm ( also for rear alignment ) checked, they may be loose and letting the car wander a bit. I saw a few people post here that they had wandering issues and one person had said thier bolts were loose and when tightened the wandering was better/gone. I just had mine aligned ( car has 500 miles ) and they werent as tight as they should have been and had been moving slighly already.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by leer
Question - I had a RDR swaybar installed (in 2nd setting). I've look under the car and can't seem to find it. Should this bar be visible? Did I lose it? I certainly didn't hear it fall off.

Just wondering how you have something installed without knowing where it is and what it looks like. Hopefully didnt have someone else just install it because people here said it made it handle better

Have no fear though, there is no way it fell off. You have to remove your rear springs and on some cars you must drop the subframe in order to snake it out. My guess is it has something to do with alignment or the control arms.
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 07:03 PM
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found it. It may be loose

Thanks everyone. I had it installed by Helix.

As for not knowing what it looks like - Actually I don't know a lot of stuff and I've owned 7 performance cars over the years - but I know what I like and thats all it matters as far as I'm concern. Actually, if I didn't have to fill up so often, I probably wouldn't even know where to put the gas.

Cheers
 
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Old Dec 28, 2004 | 07:09 PM
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Should look like this puppy...




or this...

 
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Old Jan 6, 2005 | 03:33 AM
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The bushes might need some lubrication... after the second day I started to hear bad *** noises from them
don't have time to get them sorted .. but atleast I've got zerk fittings to finish the job faster.
 
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