Step 1: Its time to get the car in the air to allow easy access to the sway bar. Place the car in gear, and chalk the front wheels to insure the car is stable. Place your hydraulic jack in the middle rear of the car, on the designated jacking point. Remove both wheels.

Step 2: Your mission in step 2 is to lower the gas tank a bit to ease the removal and installation of the bar itself. It is wise to run your current tank nearly out of gas to make the tank as light as possible. You will not be removing the gas tank in its entirety, rather just lowering the rear portion of the tank.
2a: Open your gas door and remove the 4 screws, the gas cap, and the cable that pokes out through the plastic. This will allow you to lower the tank.

2b: Slide underneath the car, and look for the two straps that hold the gas tank up into its nook. Place your hydraulic jack underneath the tank, and undue the two rear bolts that penetrate through the straps. Slower lower the tank as much as possible. Note* I had to remove one of the heat shield on the passenger side of the tank in order to lower the tank enough. You may not have to do this, if you do, its simple, a few 10mm bolts.

Step 3: Now that the gas tank is out of the way, begin to remove the sway bar from the car.
Step 3a: Start by accessing the wheel well and locating the attachment of the sway bar to the strut via the end links. You will need the an Allen wrench, and a 14 mm wrench to remove the upper end link from the strut tower. Place the closed end of the wrench over the nut, and then simultaneously turn the Allen wrench.




Step 3b: Locate the two Sway Bar to Chassis mounts and undue both mounts. The sway bar should be relatively free floating.

(Step 4): This step may not be required. Because of my large 3 inch exhaust, I had to remove the rear attachments of the exhaust and lower the exhaust to get it out of the way. Again, this may not be required with the factory exhaust, but does make it simple to remove the bar.

Step 5: Carefully work the bar out of its location by twisting and bending it until you work it out of the car. Utilize the new space alloted by the old gas tank position.

Step 6: Transfer the factory endlinks onto the Suspension Technique Sway bar. Inspect for wear and replace as needed.

Step 7: The new bar is substantially thicker then the old bar, so working it in is sort of a pain. Again, use the gas tank space. Twist and contort the bar until you find the correct oreintation to get the bar in place.

Step 8: Bolting in the Sway Bar.

Step 8a: Swap the new bushings onto the new sway bar, and lube them up with the acompanying white grease that came with the package.


Step 8b: Very important to first attatch the sway bar to both struts before attaching it to the chassis. Attatch the endlinks in the opposite manor of removal.

(I did it backwards, made it a pain!)

Step 8c: Bolt the bar to the chassis via the new brackets and bolts, may take a bit of force to encourage it.

Step 9: Reinstall the gas tank following the instructions above but in reverse. Also reinstall your exhaust if you removed part of it.

Step 10: Lower the car and ENJOY! It may appear that the sway bar is to wide before lowering the car. Once weight is applied to the bar, it will bend in such a way that moves it away from the struts. I put my bar to the stiffest setting (closest hole) and have not tried any other settings. Great mod!

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