Front Swaybar Install

[performance-wise]

How the hell do you install the front swaybar on a R33 GTST??

Ive got some whiteline non-adjustable swaybars and was attempting to install them today.

The rear went on without any dramas but when I got to the front.....

I removed the plastic stonegaurd thingy and checked all the bolts securing the front swaybar.

There is 2 bolts that cant be accessed as there is another part in the way (sorry, dont know the name of it?)

I tried removing the part in the way but the bolts are on pretty good and I didnt want to bugger them by trying to force them.

thought I better ask the 'experts' first (you guys)

Heres some crappy pics:

The bolt is circled:

The part in the way is circled:

[Sydneykid]

This is the "how to" I wrote on fitting a front stabiliser bar to a Stagea, I think it answers your questions;

The front looks a little trickier than the rear but it isn't, you just have to remove the undetray first. It has lots of bolts around the front and down the sides, 12 of them I think (10mm socket);

Then you need to undo the std links, only where they attach to the bar as the Whiteline bar uses the standard links (14mm ring and 14 mm open ended spanner);

Once you have undone the links, then its time for the D brackets, there is a bolt at the front (14mm socket);

And you get at the nut at the rear (14 mm socket and medium extension), it is a bit hidden up above the radius rod bush;

This is comparison of the bars, note the links are still on the Stagea

Once again you simply reverse the process for fitting the Whiteline bar, this one I put on the highest rate (hole furthest in on the arm). Don't forget to grease inside the polyurethane D bushes, they touch metal as well.

Put the undertray back on and you are finished.

Hope that helps

cheers

[performance-wise]

  Sydneykid said:

This is the "how to" I wrote on fitting a front stabiliser bar to a Stagea, I think it answers your questions;

And you get at the nut at the rear (14 mm socket and medium extension), it is a bit hidden up above the radius rod bush;

Hope that helps

cheers

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks Gary. I checked your thread out when attempting the install but the nuts are a bastard to get to.

Im going to a mates this afternoon as he's got better tools.

Should get it done.

Cheers

[Eug]

u'll need a torque wrench.. i know i did

[MANWHOR3]

you don't need a torque wrench. what you need is a breaker bar.