ATTN: Tanabe Spring Owners
 

I had Tanabe GF210 Springs on my car for about a year. I just got some AP Sway bars and end links.
Everyone was telling me installing the back sway bar and end links is about a 30 min install. So I started with the back ran into a issue with building the end links they are not plug 'n play out of the box so my frist try on the install was about 4 hours :rofl: No big deal with the help of the fellow members on here came to my rescue and round two was a 30 min install.

However after requestion pix of what the bar and end links should look like when intsalled the right way I did find out that my oem/stock end links where bent back wards like a elbow :uhh:
This cant be good. I dont know if its from loading 2 3 or 4 people in my car. Or loading the trunk with grocerys or driving aggressive.

I just want to let people know about this. If you have aftermarket springs that are soft check your end links. They might be bent.

I'll pick up my bar this weekend and try to get pix up so you know what I'm talking about.
-Gil

its the big sub-system in the trunk.:)

So its not the bodies?

I would like to see pictures of what you mean

Its at my friend J's house. I'll stop by and pick it up after I dyno my car tomorrow

I took a picture for comparison

AP vs. a Stock End-Link.

I made an arrow where they are prone to break and if I am not mistaken there was a recall on this as well for the exact reason that under heavy cornering end-links would break at that point.

As you can see the Rear End-Link on the Left, Stock in the center, and on the Right Front, which is Adjustable.

There is no better End-Link on the market currently then AP with the cost compared to benefits.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_0950.jpg

I had my stock sway bars and ride height on auto x's and nothing happen to mine. Even after lowering the car and using stock setup for about 3 months nothing happen. Like fluid said, your must of been the flukes that needed the recall. So if you hear squeaks then better check your end links.
Btw Dominion, where is the front bar?

hmm.. i might have to check this out.. i was waxing my car and the car was squeaking in place.. i have the same springs.. a simple end link replacement will do the trick?

^
If you have GF210's get some sway bars and end links! you will not regret it. I recon the AP's are great! and you wont regret it.

Fluid, my oem end links bent right in the center and back! yea I know crazy man.

are you sure you swung the sways to the correct position?

Who me? yea I used WhiteSnowflake8 pix for my install and they came out the same way. If your talking about my oem end links they bent when the oem bar was on the car. I never touched them.

in the pic i dont see where your link is bent or broke, or will it only be visible while it is on the car? i checked mine the other day they seem to be fine

You dont see where they are bent due to me not posting a pic yet. Its at my friend Jason-san house and hes working till 9pm. I'll keep trying to get a pic up asap.

oh ok got cha, thanks

did you install sway bar upside down? :)

beers :beer:

i am talking about the oem end links. you mustve touched them when installing the springs. maybe the sways werent swung back around correctly..
just a thought

^We checked everything out. All was good. It happen after.

very odd.

beers :beer:

Pix are up!

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Oh sh!t!!! that looks like a crack on my tank.:eek: now how the Hell did that happen? :scratchhe:

Holy Bent End-Link Batman!

You weren't Kidding!

wow, ok yeah mine deffinately dont look like that lol, thats crazy

never seen an endlink bend like THAT. have they been removed before?
You bought this car used, right?

Yea I can tell they never been removed before man. I could not even get them off the bar.
Yea got the car used. Maybe the kid went off roading in it lol he was 16 and his Mom co-signed. I have all the paper work they left in the glove box.