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Anyone ever tried adding spacer where the swaybar mounts 2 frame?

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  • Start date Start date Jul 28, 2007

Pokageek

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My oil pan is still kinda close.. So rather than changing trajectory of the drivetrain an raising the engine closer too hood...how about pushing the sway bar down a bit with spacers?
 

mustang1994bob

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whats wrong with it being close? It will never hit, and I think that spacers might bring undesireable preload unless you also space the endlinks,
 

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what would you space it with...rubber is going to be destroyed in no time if you could get something harder to space it out i think it would work how much are you trying to lower it by?? less then a inch??
 

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I am afraid its goin to hit the oil pan on a bump.

Yes, that "pre-load" part i dont understand a whole lot but I guess that woul be bad. Darnit, so close too.
 

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I had some metal spacers made so that they would clear my turbo kit and then i bought some shortened endlinks. It would have worked fine, it cleared my header but it still hit my crossover pipe. If you want the spacers PM me your address and i'll ship them to you. I probably won't be able to ship them until next week though as I'll be working long hours next week.
 

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I would jsut space it down like you are saying... even 1/2" will be plety from the sounds of it. I don't even know if I would worry about the endlinks...
 

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mootang said:
I had some metal spacers made so that they would clear my turbo kit and then i bought some shortened endlinks. It would have worked fine, it cleared my header but it still hit my crossover pipe. If you want the spacers PM me your address and i'll ship them to you. I probably won't be able to ship them until next week though as I'll be working long hours next week.
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That is super! I pm'd you! Thanks x 10!!
 

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94-302-vert said:
I would jsut space it down like you are saying... even 1/2" will be plety from the sounds of it. I don't even know if I would worry about the endlinks...
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Yep. I may just try it without worrying about endlinks first...

I am not sure what pre-load means or what it does..1/2 " may not matter tho.
 

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I lowered my swaybar down almost 1" with washers and shortened my swaybar endlinks.
 

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I can't see what lowering it 1/2" or so on both mounts would do in terms of pre-load, its just basically going to rotate slightly. I wouldn't worry too much about endlinks, since many of us drop our cars 1.5-2" without ever worrying about end-link length. IMO spacing the sway bar downward would have the same effect as dropping the suspension the same amount. That being said, you probably could bennifit from the end links being shorter since idealy you'd want the ends of the bar sitting parallel to the ground at ride height, as opposed to inclined upwards.
 

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1TallMF said:
I can't see what lowering it 1/2" or so on both mounts would do in terms of pre-load, its just basically going to rotate slightly. I wouldn't worry too much about endlinks, since many of us drop our cars 1.5-2" without ever worrying about end-link length. IMO spacing the sway bar downward would have the same effect as dropping the suspension the same amount. That being said, you probably could bennifit from the end links being shorter since idealy you'd want the ends of the bar sitting parallel to the ground at ride height, as opposed to inclined upwards.
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Ok. I will try this. Great input.
 
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