AWD addco rear sway bar installation help needed

[Rakuny]

I just finished my rear end and after struggling a lot with the endlinks finally was able to get the swaybar installed.. I got the subframe up and found that the axle nuts hit the swaybar on the drivers side. Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions?


Passenger side clears.. barely..



Drivers side hits...



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[J. Fast]

O_o Can you take an expanded pic of the whole rear end and end links?

[Rakuny]

I can later today.. I just got home.. I got stuck leaving where the car is at and got stuck when I got home.. the day after I finally get the part I was waiting for and have time off work we get a shit ton of very heavy sticky wet snow.. not my day lol

I will also say that by "struggled getting the endlinks connected", I mean I still can't believe it went together.. holy tight fight. I litterally had to use a pry bar on the sway bar against the subframe to get the rear sway bar bracket bolts in..

BTW, I tried to get more weights so I could add them up and have a total weight for the rear subframe and everything.. when I tried to weigh the differential I felt like I was going to break the scale and it error'd because the reading was too high for the scale.

Edit: the sway bar also hits the floor now that I've installed the subframe.

[R/T93]

Some other guy had problems with it hitting the floor, 3sx said something along the lines of, "it worked on our test mule".

Saner or bust, IMO.

[B-Man]

You could try bending it

Bummer though.

[Rakuny]

thinking about throwing the stocker back on and eating the cost. The fitment on this thing is a joke. It shouldn't be a big accomplishment just getting the endlinks connected. As it happens I was super stoked to finally get it.. only took me 2 hours..

Edit: just to clarify about the floor hitting issue.. I did NOT use the supplied shims under the sway bar brackets.

[Vantage]

Hopefully Maximal can chime in and help you because he sells them, so I would think he would know..

[B-Man]

If you run just the front swaybar, you might experience more understeer.

[Rakuny]

Maximal can't get the AWD ones, he only sells them for FWD.

I am gonna try to move the mount forward on that side.. I didn't bother with it earlier because the bar is already hitting the floor and I don't think it will work.. I don't need much clearance though... I'm also gonna jack through the suspension motion to see if there are any other interference issues.

I ordered new brackets (I broke mine getting them off) and bushings for the stock bar just in case..

If you run just the front swaybar, you might experience more understeer.

I think otherwise, I'll shoot you a message later

[Rakuny]

I was able to loosen the one bracket and pry it back and it cleared.. as soon as I jacked the suspension through it's travel it hit again.. it hits the worst in the middle of the travel. more pics of whole sub frame and sway bar hitting the floor.