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Anyone here successfully running LR chromoly control arms with factory sway bar?

I'm having serious trouble with the ends of the sway bar hitting the brake lines and the brake line brakets on the struts. Left like it is the lines will be cut. As far as I can see there is no more room for adjustment. My conclusion is that this combo is unworkable without modifying the struts.

Do I need to start cutting and welding or is there some hidden way around this problem?

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I'm renewing this thread as I'm still having trouble getting this to work.
I've repositioned the "jaws" that hold the brake-lines in position to give more room for the strut to rotate without hitting the sway bar.

The problem I'm having now is that the drop links keep breaking because the movement about the front to back axis is too limited. The drop link hits the the control arm attachment point and snaps.

I've since learnt that LR have changed their design of the drop-link attachmenet point, presumably because of this problem. Yet, when I spoke to them some time ago I was litterally told "your on your own" when I asked for help solving the problem (the arms came with the car, but were only a year old when I bought it).

Is anyone here successfully running these arms with the stock ARB?

UPDATE: I've contacted Lindsey again to try to work this out. It is possible that he did not understand the seriousness of the situation the first time (English is my second language and we were on a long distance phone line). I want to make it clear. I did not post this to slate LR, I have been very satisfied with their services so far and am willing to try to work this out with them. I'm writing this as these things are easily blown out of proportions. All I want is to find out if anyone on the forum has been able to work around this problem.
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1990 944 T: 100 000 km/63K miles,
1997 986 2.5L: 95 000 km/60K miles,
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Just an update to let you know that Lindsey has come through for me and is going to set me up with a solution that I'm super happy with. Excellent customer support from him.

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