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usafstud

The sway bar don’t seem to stay centered and shifts to the right side. As you see in the pictures, I can fit my fingers through the left side, but not the right side.

What could cause this? Inputs?

spaded.racer

There is a decent amount of force being transferred there. Measure your bar and order something like this from McMaster-Carr;

roel03

The Saner style bars already come with those collars. You are supposed to have them installed on the exterior side of your D brackets.

If you loosen your D brackets and your collars, you can recenter the bar.

Afterfire

My friend had this same issue with his Moddiction bar and his Ohlins. We tried shuffling it around while on a lift, tried different endlinks, couldnt get both sides to sit right. Never got any answer from Moddiction despite reaching out to him several times and he just gave up. With my untrained eye, it looked bent. Its sitting on my garage floor currently useless. I have the Saner bar, the literal one that these replica Moddiction bars were made from and it doesnt look bent like his.

usafstud

Do you need to take the tension off the sway bar (have the wheels on jacks) prior to loosening the d brackets and collars to recenter?

roel03

Just remove endlinks when centering. At that point the bar is just hanging there by the D-brackets.

Torque endlinks with car on the ground to not preload your bar.

usafstud

So I don’t think my Moddiction (saner rep) bars are equal in dimensions. I loosened everything to move over to the left side, but it can’t move since the bend of the bar is against the right D bracket. There is about 1/2” of gap on the left side of the bar, but zero on the right.



Right side of bar below




Left side of the bar

Chibo

Maybe it's an optical illusion, but your endlinks look bent.

Afterfire

This was the issue per my earlier post. They mightve been bent incorrectly from whoever produced them.