I installed my sway bar a while ago and noticed that it was rubbing against the trailing arm as shown on the picture. To alleviate this I thought of putting washers as shown in the pic, has anyone done this? Does your sway bar rub?

 

you sure it isnt upside down? I thought mine had a slight bend to it so it would fit better 1 way. But I have one of the original versions.

 

Pic looks normal to me..do you have the inner plate installed in the trailing arm?

Here' mine:

 

From what I remember when I installed it, it was identical on both sides.


Yup the plate is definitely inside the torsion bar.

See even when I look at your pic it looks like yours is touching or at least very, very close to your torsion beam there in the one spot.

 

I have no problems with contact or rubbing..they all look like that installed. As far as I know, the BAR and the rear trailing arm move in tandem so there shouldn't be any rubbing between the two.

 

it looked like mine touches the trailing arm, i havent looked at it closely tho to see if its worn through the powder coat or anything

 

Reason is because when I go over big bumps I hear a bit of a bang coming from the back. And when I get under the car and just bang the sway bar with my hand I can hear a bit of metal on metal contact.

 

Which bar? If you have the PRS bar, and you hear something when you hit the sway bar, either it's installed wrong, or you are really lowered, and the exhaust is hitting the rear beam under compression. It's far more likely that this is the exhaust hitting the beam rather than the sway bar making noise.

The sway bar is directly connected to the beam, and as such can't really make any noise.

 

I'm lowered on Pedders springs and it's the PRS Street Bar (1"). And the bar is definitely installed correctly, it would be quite hard to install it wrong lol.

Well I slid in a tiny piece of rubber were it was touching (or really close to) the trailing arm/torsion beam (on both sides) and now the slight banging noise is gone.

 

The prs bar part that goes across the torsion beam isn't held at all, if you hit a bump it will wiggle up and down some so I can see this hitting. Mine doesn't though, but I have the hardcore bar

 

It's normal.. the reason is is Powell quit grinding the bolt sleaves down flush.. it doesnt effect performance, just cuts into the paint.

 

quality control?

 

This is exactly what happens. Bar works great this is just slightly annoying so I'm hoping the rubber pieces stay lol.

If this doesn't work I will probably take the bar off and grind an 1/8th of an inch off the torsion beam.

 

your concerned about the bar rubbing a little bit....have you ever seen what road debris does to a sway bar?

 

No I could care less if it rubs but like I said in my earlier posts it would bang over bumps.

 

just installed mine today and noticed a banging too.....i might give the rubber a try

 

poor quality control

 

Mine touched too never made any noise though

Make sure you torque the bolts down to about 50ft/lbs too. It'll make noise if the bolts aren't tight enough I've heard it on 2 cars over here

 

Yea, I have this too now... I originally didn't but I think over time something loosened and now I get the banging. I just have to get down there to fix it but I been lazy

 

on another note
hey tom.g what kind of rims are you runnin in your sig picture?

 

Wrapping it with 3M double sidded mounting tape might work pretty good, seems like it would provide a decent padding

 

The real fix would be to grind down the sleeves and grind a little bit out of the torsion bar. You could also possibly use a washer or 2 on the front bolts.

 

I agree.

The rubber or anything else is going to be temporary and probably more temporary than you expect. That's a lot of force there and frequent. It'll rub through that rubber rather quickly.

I'd do the proper fix as soon as you get a chance.

 

The hardcore bar isn't close to touching on my 2010.

 

Wow, do you clean your exhaust?! Or was it new in this pic?