reinstalling front sway bar?!!
 

just got done rebuilding my steering rack, (easy job and it did need bearings). i'm trying to remount the sway bar and im stuck! i can get one side in without any problems, all the way in half way in whatever. the other side is a good inch away from the hole in the bushing and i can't seem to stress the bar far enough by hand to get it close.
any ideas?:confused:

anything would help!

what type of car?

Let me guess, under body factory post 73 sway bar?
I have found the easiest thing is to get one side in and then put your jack under the other a-arm and try to get a better alignment of the bar/bushing by raising/lowering the a-arm to different positions. I large pry bar is also going to be your friend. There have been a few posts from others suffering from this job as well, do a search and you will find lots of helpful hints.

Cheers,

Did mine..a stock 78sc with the car sitting on the ground. I installed new sway bushings and used some silicone lube and some muscle. Went right in.

JerHic: Here's all the scoop U need......Go thru the thread till you get to the writeup and pic's by: TonyTheTarga. He use of the come-a-long is the answer.......

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=199578&highlight=swayba r

im sorry, its a 1982 sc. my front wheels are being refurbished so i can't put the car on the ground. i looked at a pry bar but have second thoughts about that, (would a porsche really require a pry bar on anything? i think).

what worted for me on 87 wa getting the car on the ground then raising it from the middle, things seemed to settle back into place.

However you got the sway bar out, it will go back in that way; i.e., installation is the reverse of removal.

It goes in without the need of a come along. Careful alignment and a little help from MR pry bar. If that bothers you, use a large wrench instead. You will not need to lower the car back down. Beware though, this job does require a little muscle, it is not a delicate procedure. Just be glad you do not have the later 22mm bar.


Cheers

patkeefe, you are absolutely right, but the hard part is figuring out how they put it in the first time. life should be so simple. you guys have been very helpful and have given me some great ideas on how to solve my dilemma. and i thank you!

I just installed a 22mm sway bar in the front of my SC a little while ago, major PITA.
I was tring to be gentle with it, jacking this, aligning that, pushng here and there.
I was all out of swear words and had starting inventing new ones, when I decided I needed a beer.
Half way through the beer I decided to pull the wheel off the side that was not installed yet, and used a 2x4 to pry against the bar. It started in the hole, but also started pushing the bushing out. I tapped the bushing bask in, and continued prying with the 2x4, it went right in.

sammyg2, that what i needed to hear. your the man sammyg2

jerhic:
Sammy is the man, I agree. Hopefully, you don't yet have the tie rods connected. So, have a beer, undo the tie rod on either side, get it started in the bushing, and squirt Astro-Glide in the bushings (Astro-Glide is a real product, not something I made up. Get it at the drug store). That thing will slide right in.
Pat

Done! Took Sammyg2's idea with the 2x4 and Patkeefe squirt of "astro-glide". parked one of my work trucks beside the SC, just far enough away so that i could put a 2x4 against the tire, i then put a jack against that and then the long 2x4 between the jack and the sway bar and it was effortless. again thanks for ALL of the help!!

I just did this last Sunday, and I decided it would have been much easier to just drop one control arm, slide the bar in and reassemble.