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So I took many board members advice and bought the SAS front and rear sway bars. I managed to get the rear bar on with some struggle and team work and a bag of expletives but was ultimately successful. The front bar presented all kinds of clearance problems so I gave up and took it to the local shop and explained the situation.
After a day of work, the local mechanic, handed the keys back to me with the parting remark "that bar was pretty stiff", I held the "that's what she said" comment back. I knew he'd been around the block a few times and I genuinely trusted his mechanical ability. His comment should have been the first clue that something wasn't right, instead i picked up my keys with hope in my eyes and chicanes in my heart.
When I out to the I noticed some thing was immediately different. It was almost as if the car looked higher in front, odd, but perhaps things needed to "settle in". Then things got bad. With a turn of the ignition I felt the entire car tremble and shudder as if I was in a paint mixer. As I tried to row the shifter through the gears to try to get a better idea of what had happened to my 'smooth when not in LHM' Aero. The shifts felt I was pulling a straw through a Slurpee lid that was way to small for the straw. Every shift was rewarded with loads resistance and a metal on bulkhead scrape.
My silly "just walk it off" mentality lingered as I drove my paint can through the parking lot. The front suspension felt as if it was floating over the potholes but the but the vibrations of the motor swept throughout the cabin as if the body had become a snare drum, a strange feeling. Walking it off clearly wasn't going to work, something had gone horribly wrong. So I took the car back to the mechanic, and turned the wheel to lock fully to the left so that I could take a peek at the handy work.
All the mounting points looked good, maybe a little too tight. Then I took a peek at the back of the bar and that's when I saw it. The golden rod which had a '^' like bend in it to go over the forward most portion of the exhaust was pointed like 'v' and pushed on the exhaust. They had installed the sway bar upside-down. I had to laugh. The bar was pushing on the exhaust and may be a few other things which I believe was pushing up on the transmission. Basically my motor/trans mounts had become my new shock absorbers. At this point I'm not sure what the damage will be but I know who's fixing it.
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, Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:09:58, Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:10:41
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