Re: Subway's GT: Big Plans
Well, this sway bar replacement turned into the biggest pain in the ass I've had to deal with to date on this car. Instead of this being an easy project, it was an over 4 hour project -______-. Getting the bolts and sh*t out wasn't hard. Both end links snapped off as soon as the breaker bar was used xD. Not a big deal, but now the fun begins. Get everything holding the bar down out and now it's just wobbling in there. Go to pull it out, it starts getting stuck. So I try twisting it in different directions and stuff, but nope! It would not come out no matter what direction you twisted it. So that left me with one of two solutions at the time. 1, cut like 8" off one end and pull the old bar out. 2, leave it in there and just bolt the new end links and bushings to it and try again when I had more time. At this point, my brother and dad were helping me. So I went with option number 1. Went to get a saw zaw from my neighbors house and brought it back. But before we started cutting, we gave it one more go. We got it to the same position it kept getting stuck at, and realized it was like 1/2 inch from getting free. So being extremely frustrated, we just hammered the bar the rest of the way out. Not caring what was in the way. (The down pipe was in the way and would not let it out). Well, we got it out after using a ****ing sledge hammer. And guess what, the new bar is bigger than the old one, so it was gonna be even more difficult to get into place. And indeed it was. (Dropping the subframe was not an option as it would take too much time). We freaking hammered that thing until it finally went into place. And there was some plastic clip that brake while hammering. Kind of looked like a clip to hold a fuel or brake line into place. Who cares at this point. So then I loosely put the end links in place to get the bar in the correct position to put the mount bushing on. So I got the driver side on, but then the passenger side would not line up. Now I was damn near ready to burn my car. So I tried drilling the holes bigger in the mount, but it dint do much. I had to go to work soon, so I got the one bolt inI could, and cross threaded in the other. So that one is sticking life halfway out. But it is all back together, but I have not driven it yet. Tomorrow I will do that. I might remove the end links and get the bar postponed so that the frame bushings will line up properly, but not sure if that one bolt will thread in normally anymore.
Then when I finished, I had to go to work in 30 minutes. So I was rushing through the whole thing.
