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Blew up a KYB & I found my sway bar clunk


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So I swapped my winter tires out for the summers today and I found this...

 

KYB GO BOOM! all that wet area is oily, guess this means I have to do struts this summer....

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And I found out another source of the clunk in the ass end. My sway bar moved on me!!

 

Passenger side, looks fairly normal at first...

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Drivers side... not so normal...

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Because the sway bar moved over so far it is hugging the strut on the passenger side and hitting the lip when it flexes, I think. And on the drivers side, because its moved so far that way it is rubbing the body...

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I think this whole strut thing could mean I can't do the tubular control arms as planned... I'll have to go over my summer budget this week when the gf figures out what she is doing for work after school in 2 months.

 

Jamie

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I have a set of replacement bushings for your bar Jamie. BOOOOO about the tubular control arms. Just buy rear struts. $200 taxes in tops.

 

Time for those split collars we talked about.

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I don't know why the bushings are so shot, they aren't even a year old.... I'm going to contact PST and try to get the Poly kits this week.

 

It wasn't the incident that did this Matt, it was like this before, I kinda noticed it when we were under the car last weekend. For those of you scratching your heads about this ditch incident... I did something really stupid not thinking.

On my way to and from work there is a round-a-bout. When I started working there I pushed the car through the round-a-bout, soooo much fun! And I was fine. WELL... on the way from work the other day the car in front of me was going soooooooo fuckin slow, so I decided I would pass them going through the round-a-bout. Done it before without problem. WELL, the fact that the car is 2" higher than last summer and I have winter tires on it, just skipped my mind. The ass end started to slide out, I corrected only to jump the curb, I got the car pointed back to the road, but by now the ass end was sliding down into the ditch, once the traffic was gone I gunned it and pulled out of the ditch. Only damage is a slight flat spot in one of the winter rims, so slight that there is no difference in the way the car drives.

 

And yeah, I need to get under the car with a pressure washer, wire wheel and a can of POR15.

 

Jamie

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